Beware the Progressive Schmittian
The liberalism that has guided modern western governments for the past half century faces challenges today from both far left and far right. Some people challenge the assumptions underpinning...
View ArticleThe Unbroken Thread by Sohrab Ahmari
Sohrab Ahmari is a man searching for something bigger than himself to believe in. When he was very young, his family, leery of the Shia fundamentalism of their native Iran,… View Post The post The...
View ArticleIs Liberalism Genocidal, Racist and Elitist?: A Reply to Domenico Losurdo’s...
Liberalism can refer to many things: a philosophy, a disposition, an educational style—even a brand. But it is primarily thought of as a political doctrine originating in the seventeenth century,… View...
View ArticleConstitutions, Frontiers, Revelations and Truths: New Books by Jonathan...
This article consists of reviews of four books that, while different in many ways, have certain things in common. Some of the connections are fairly direct—A. C. Grayling’s The Frontiers… View Post The...
View ArticleLiberal Rights, Progressive Wrongs
In contemporary discourse, the concepts of liberalism and progressivism are routinely conflated, especially in American politics. But, as historically understood, they are distinct, and in many ways at...
View ArticleThe Enlightenment Paradigm: A Response to Yoram Hazony’s “Conservatism: A...
Introduction by Matt McManus He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able… View Post The post The Enlightenment Paradigm: A...
View ArticleSomething Worse than Liberal Hegemony
On the twentieth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the Economist published an essay entitled “How America wasted its unipolar moment.” It was a familiar story in a popular genre… View Post The...
View ArticleThe Disappointments of Liberalism: Luke Savage’s “The Dead Center”
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.—Robert Frost Liberals have long prided themselves on their pragmatism and moderation. While radical movements on… View Post The...
View ArticleLiberalism and Our Sexual Rights and Freedoms
In an increasingly global knowledge economy, the middle and working classes of developed countries are feeling the pinch. This economic stress has inspired a resurgence of extremist political...
View ArticleChristopher Hitchens, the Conservative Marxist
How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment by Matt Johnson (2023). A review. There has been a gaping void in our political and… View Post The...
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