As war rages in Ukraine and China challenges democracy, where is liberalism — and what does it stand for?
2 years, 5 months ago

As war rages in Ukraine and China challenges democracy, where is liberalism — and what does it stand for?

ABC  

The brave defenders of Ukraine are hailed as fighting not just for their homeland but for a way of life. Isaiah Berlin called it the "liberal predicament" — to remain faithful to liberalism may be to fail liberalism. Cherniss says these thinkers offered a "tempered liberalism"; "an awareness of liberalism's drawbacks and defects". The political scientist Francis Fukuyama, channelling Hegel's historicism, declared the "end of history" — that liberal democracy was the final destination for all humanity. Joshua Cherniss says it is "fashionable to cheer the 'shipwreck' of liberalism — and profitable to join in looting the wreckage".

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Review of Francis Fukuyama’s Liberalism and its Discontents: Crisis of liberal democracy
2 years, 3 months ago

Review of Francis Fukuyama’s Liberalism and its Discontents: Crisis of liberal democracy

The Hindu  

There is no such thing as society,” Margaret Thatcher, the late British Prime Minister once said, highlighting what she thought of the responsibility of the individual. This is the context of Francis Fukuyama’s latest book, Liberalism and its Discontents. But the problem with Fukuyama’s narrative is that it treats classical liberalism as a pristine theory that’s dissociated from the violence …

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