Paul Sabin is a professor of history at Yale University and director of the Yale Environmental Humanities Program. He is the author of Public Citizens and The Bet. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
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In the 1960s and 1970s, an insurgent attack on traditional liberalism took shape in America. It was built on new ideals of citizen advocacy and the public interest. Drawing energy from civil rights protests and opposition to the Vietnam War, the new citiz... SEE MORE