Socialism and Liberalism: A Path Towards Estrangement’s End
Thinkers in both “camps” have not only challenged the underlying idea of the split but created theory that unified both liberal and socialist principles.
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The Origins of Right-Wing Populism
The intellectual history of this seemingly contradictory political tendency.
Roger Scruton's Critique of Liberalism
Scruton was a serious and thoughtful philosopher whose views warrant careful engagement.
A Fundamentally Anti-Democratic Tradition: Zack Beauchamp's "The Reactionary Spirit"
Where conservatives may seek to conserve their democratic systems, reactionaries by their nature seek to weaken or abolish them.
C. B. Macpherson on Retrieving Liberal Radicalism
The 20th century political theorist has much to offer for the contemporary left liberal.
The Successes and Failures of the Nordic Model: Kjell Ostberg on Swedish Social Democracy
Can we still draw hope from the past successes of Swedish social democracy?
Work Against the Poor
On Elizabeth Anderson's Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back
Samuel Moyn on the Abandonment of Revolutionary Liberalism
Samuel Moyn argues that Cold War liberals abandoned liberalism's revolutionary promise.
Nietzsche's Critique of Liberalism
Liberal institutions straightway cease from being liberal, the moment they are soundly established: once this is attained no more grievous
The Details of a Rawlsian Society: Daniel Chandler’s Free and Equal
…We may reject the contention that the ordering of institutions is always defective because the distribution of natural talents and
Understanding Liberalism in Moral Terms: Michael Walzer's "The Struggle for Decent Politics"
For friends of liberalism, to be liberal-minded means possessing a broad curiosity about all things unbridled by prejudice or contempt.