Adrian Wooldridge: Can Liberalism Save Itself?
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In this latest Conflicted Conversation, journalist Adrian Wooldridge discusses his latest book Centrists of the World Unite: The Lost Genius of Liberalism.
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Adrian and Thomas explore:
- Why liberalism is in crisis — and whether it can reinvent itself
- Modernity, permanent change and the birth of the liberal world
- Erasmus, tolerance and the case for a “chastened liberalism”
- Hobbes, individualism and whether liberalism misunderstands human nature
- John Stuart Mill, moral formation and the need for cultural elites
- Power, authority and how liberal distrust became a “democracy of disdain”
- Meritocracy, elite failure and the rise of the examination class
- Identity politics, minority rights and the limits of anti-majoritarian liberalism
- America, China and the unraveling of the liberal international order
- Can liberalism recover its moral foundations without Christianity?
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