Radical liberals want to make America a better place, but their utopian sociable engineering leads, ironically, to higher human suffering.

From Karl Marx to Barack Obama, Horowitz displays the way the idealistic impulse to make the world an improved place gives delivery to the twin cultural pathologies of cynicism and nihilism and may be the chief source of human suffering. A previous liberal himself, Horowitz recounts his own brushes with radicalism and will be offering unparalleled insight into the disjointed ideology of liberal elites through case studies of well-known radical leftists, including Christopher Hitchens, feminist Bettina Aptheker, leftist educational Cornel West, yet others.

Exploring the foundation and evolution of radical liberals and their progressive ideology, Radicals illustrates how liberalism is not only intellectually crippling for its adherents but devastating to society.