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Liberalism and the West’s ‘Crisis of Meaning’

Many liberals are strangely eager to concede that liberal societies are morally and spiritually bankrupt without religion to give life meaning.

Matt Johnson

4 Jul 2024 · 25 min read

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The Rise of a Mega-Movement

We have lost the words that we could once call upon to justify diversity of thoughts, desires, viewpoints, and policy preferences, as opposed to a diversity of demographic groups.

Russell Blackford

21 May 2024 · 8 min read

‘We Never Looked Back’

Education was divided along confessional lines into Catholic and Protestant school systems; for these purposes, Jews were designated Protestant.

Ruth R. Wisse

27 Nov 2021 · 15 min read

20 Hungarian Lessons the West Is Still Missing

Hungarian politics is usually much less ideological than you think.

Erik D'Amato

13 Aug 2021 · 12 min read

The Rise of Post-Liberal Man

This kind of regime-analysis disappeared with the rise of classical liberalism, which supplied an altogether different language of politics.

Mathis Bitton

22 Jul 2021 · 8 min read

Liberalism—Decline or Survival

It would be a mistake to conflate “adaptive” with “good.” But similarly, it is a mistake to conflate “good” with “sustainable.”

Sam Ashworth-Hayes

17 Nov 2020 · 6 min read

Reflections on Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Address

This imbalance between rights and responsibilities is not only restricted to individuals, it is also affecting our governmental, societal, and cultural institutions.

Sergiu Klainerman

24 Oct 2020 · 12 min read

Reports of Liberalism's Death—A Reply to Yoram Hazony

Our pre-liberal past was far worse than our imperfect present, and attempts to build a utopian post-liberal future have invariably ended in regression to barbarism.

Cathy Young

16 Sep 2020 · 11 min read

The Failure of Fusionism

The parties that have previously sold themselves as staunch defenders of freedom are now the parties most susceptible to authoritarianism.

Grant Wyeth

13 Sep 2020 · 12 min read

PODCAST 105: Yoram Hazony on the Challenge of Marxism

Yoram Hazony, author of The Virtue of Nationalism, talks about the why liberal institutions like the New York Times have proved so vulnerable to capture by the hard Left. He wrote about this recently for Quillette.

Quillette / Yoram Hazony

21 Aug 2020 · 1 min read

The Challenge of Marxism

For a generation after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, most Americans and Europeans regarded Marxism as an enemy that had been defeated once and for all. But they were wrong.

Yoram Hazony

16 Aug 2020 · 22 min read

I Was Invited to Testify on Energy Policy. Then Democrats Didn't Let Me Speak

What, exactly, had I said that was so dangerous as to lead Democrats to engage in character assassination and undermine liberal democratic norms? Nothing I hadn’t already said last January when I testified before Congress about climate change and energy.

Michael Shellenberger

29 Jul 2020 · 6 min read

COVID-19 and Liberalism

If liberal strategies end up providing weaker results than illiberal ones, liberals might want to revise not only their COVID-19 policy, but also some of their broader assumptions about human nature.

Kristijan Fidanovski

9 Apr 2020 · 9 min read

The Frankfurt School and the Allure of Submission

For Fromm, Horkheimer, and Adorno, this project could only end in a desire for mass death. This is because, in a nihilistic sense, death is the ultimate form of order, stripped of all the anxieties and challenges which come with life.

Matt McManus

4 Sep 2019 · 9 min read

François Furet: A Man For Our Season

Furet feared that there now appeared to be a simultaneous deadening of politics as the apparently unchallengeable hegemony of quasi-liberal democracy grew, and a dangerous backlash against the system.

Joshua David

2 Jun 2019 · 10 min read