Is Liberalism Worth Saving?
Often, a political ideology can be justified on the basis of its principles, despite its many failings in practice. This is how Francis Fukuyama and Patrick Deneen’s interpretations of liberalism…
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Neoliberalism
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What the Left Can Learn from Right-Wing Thinkers
Some people on the left believe that those on the right have no strong intellectual heritage, that right-wing politics is based on tradition, hierarchy and obedience, and has no need…
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Beyond Postmodern: The Neoliberal Roots of Woke Cancel Culture
Anumber of writers on the left and center-left have recently expressed alarm at cancel culture. In some respects, their concerns match those of conservatives who’ve railed against campus deplatforming, compelled…
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Criticizing Postmodern Conservatism: A Response
My books (available here and here) on postmodern conservatism have enjoyed some interest: including, to my surprise, critical interest from conservatives and moderates. The most sustained effort was a recent…
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Michael Lind’s “The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite.”
The most salient divide in American life is between an increasingly powerful “managerial elite” and a vast underclass that remains alienated from its cultural values—according, at least, to Michael Lind,…
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What is Neoliberalism, Anyway?
There are few words in today’s political lexicon as simultaneously popular and misunderstood as neoliberalism. The term has become a rallying cry for the left, used to signal one’s political…
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A Peculiar Phenomenon: Review of “The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism” by Matthew McManus
Most of us were utterly unprepared for those astonishing events of 2016: Britain’s vote to leave the European Union and the election of Donald Trump to the US presidency. Why…
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Stephen Harper’s Right Here, Right Now: Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption. Book Review.
The emergence of right wing populism—which I call postmodern conservatism—as a global political force has provoked a flurry of explanatory books (including two forthcoming by yours truly). These have ranged…
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Michel Foucault: Arch-Leftist or Subversive Conservative?
Michel Foucault is one of the great thinkers of (post) modern thought, and arguably the most influential figure in the humanities and social science from the second half of the…
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The Reactionary Mind by Corey Robin. Book Review
Few political science books have stirred as much controversy as Corey Robin’s The Reactionary Mind. In its initial review, the New York Times dismisses the book as a diatribe preaching…
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Illiberal Conservatism
Introduction: The Rebirth of History In 1989, a young and then unknown scholar named Francis Fukuyama published a short article in the National Interest with the provocative title “The End…
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A Review of Quinn Slobodian’s “Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism”
Well, I would say that, as long-term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period. At times it is necessary for…
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How Post-Modern Conservatism Emerged
“Truth is not Truth” Rudy Guiliani, August 19, 2018 Introduction In an earlier article for Areo, I discussed the state of conservatism today, and argued that we are witnessing the…
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