What are you against?

That's the question the Claremont Institute's William Voegeli asks liberals in this long article at opinionjournal.com. One of those post-election "whither liberalism" articles, a bookend to Peter Beinart's "A Fighting Faith." Beinart tackles the liberals' weak-on-defense dilemma; Voegeli focuses on the philosophical framework for liberalism.

Short version: he can't find it. But read the long version.

UPDATE: The piece is so mind-boggling that Big Trunk at Powerline can only point to it. No summary attempted.