The Australian Way of Life
Politicians reach for “our way of life” to justify immigration restrictions—but the phrase may be too vague to bear that weight.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 11 min read
Liberalism
A collection of 35 posts
American Liberalism and Illiberalism
Americans who may have ferocious disagreements about the size of government, foreign policy, and a wide range of other issues must find a way to unite around their shared commitment to the liberal idea.
Matt Johnson
· 15 min read
After Liberalism
The core principles of liberalism—freedom and equality—are insufficient for the good life. We need to supplement them with a more robust, metaphysically thicker understanding of human nature and the good.
Alan S. Rome
· 17 min read
The Biggest Taboo in Academia: Israel, with Maarten Boudry | Quillette Cetera Ep. 46
"That was the moment I realised I had underestimated the ideological rot inside academia."
Zoe Sankey, Maarten Boudry
· 21 min read
The Return of History: Liberal Values and Global Realities
Only when we understand the fragility of liberal democracy will we be properly motivated to defend it.
Zak Schneider
· 9 min read
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
· 25 min read
The New Political Christianity
Western civilisation has not succeeded because its liberal and secular principles are Christian; it has succeeded because Western Christians have accepted its liberal and secular values.
Adam Wakeling
· 9 min read
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
· 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
· 15 min read
20 Hungarian Lessons the West Is Still Missing
Hungarian politics is usually much less ideological than you think.
Erik D'Amato
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 11 min read
The Contradiction That Broke the Modern Right
The parties that have previously sold themselves as staunch defenders of freedom are now the parties most susceptible to authoritarianism.
Grant Wyeth
· 12 min read