ABSTRACT
Walter Lippmann proclaimed himself a liberal democrat, and although he had turned his face against many ideas associated with liberalism and democracy, he had a valid claim to that affiliation. The low esteem of liberal democracy and anti-Americanism fed upon one another. For generations, the New World had existed to right the evils of the Old; and it remained so for the world's masses. Intellectuals clung to the faith in American culpability because it filled their need for reasons to hate their country and its democracy. In the quarter-century after 1955, the intellectuals' distrust of liberal democracy deepened. Scientists and other academics entered the upper levels of the government bureaucracy in ever greater numbers, and the scope of federal actions steadily broadened. In 1955 Lippmann had come a long way intellectually since the days when he went to work for Lincoln Steffens.
