Lippmann, Walter
Lippmann, Walter( 1889–1974),born in New York, graduated from Harvard (1909, class of 1910), and was associated with The New Republic at its inception. In 1917 he resigned to become an assistant to the secretary of war, and to aid in preparing data for the peace conference. After another period with The New Republic (1919–21), he became the leading editorial commentator for the New York World, then for the Herald Tribune (1931–62), the Washington Post (1963–67), and Newsweek (1963–70). His social philosophy was opposed to any planned society or collectivism, and he placed his faith in a liberalism regulated by the necessities of economic markets, justifying governmental interference only in cases of abuse. A Preface to Morals (1929) expounds his thesis that modern society requires realistic analysis and objective virtue for the attainment of individual freedom, rather than loyalty to...
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