Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

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“…..Democracy is more than the absence of czars, more than freedom, more than equal opportunity. It is a way of life, a use of freedom, an embrace of opportunity….” —Walter Lippmann, in the Introduction, 1916
Drift and Mastery—An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest, originally published in 1914, was Walter Lippmann’s second book and established him as a major public intellectual within the progressive movement. This classic book explored the differences between traditional and progressive values. Lippmann argued that democracy and society were at drift due to social and economic changes, and that the mastery of science and rationality in government could restore the balance in society and serve the public interest.
Drift and Mastery is a must-read for historians, political scientists, and all who are interested in American government and the Progressive Movement.


About the Author


WALTER LIPPMANN (1889-1974) was an American newspaper commentator and author. After graduating from Harvard, he co-founded the influential liberal magazine The New Republic in 1913. At the end of World War I, he became an adviser to President Wilson and assisted in drafting Wilson's Fourteen Points Speech. In 1931 Lippmann started writing a column "Today and Tomorrow" in the New York Herald Tribune, which was syndicated in more than 250 newspapers worldwide, and which earned him one of his two Pulitzer Prizes. Throughout his long career, Lippmann was highly praised and known as the "Father of Modern Journalism."