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Category Archives: Liberal
Why Is Everyone Talking About Post-Liberalism?
01:00 Why Is Everyone Talking About Post-Liberalism? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=16528204:10 What Comes After Post-Liberalism with Patrick Deneen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vAO_pkkizk11:00 Stefan Molyneux, Part 2, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/stefan-molyneux-part-2-back-in-the-moly-hole51:00 Christopher Caldwell: An Independent Fed Is an Unaccountable Fed, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/opinion/fed-rate-cut-trump.html1:01:00 FT: Nick Fuentes and Richard Hanania’s Paganism, https://firstthings.com/nick-fuentes-and-richard-hananias-paganism/1:23:00 The … Continue reading
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Liberalism Can’t Heal Itself
Ross Douthat writes in the NYT: First, growth alone does not solve the return of great-power conflict, even perhaps civilizational conflict, as a force disrupting the frictionless ideals of globalization. The liberal model of trade and exchange works best in … Continue reading
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American post-liberalism is less a doctrine than a pile-up.
You have high-church theorists writing about “the common good,” technolibertarians who decided democracy is a bug, Trumpist nationalists who want tariffs and vengance, and online paranoids who think the CIA flew the planes into the towers. They all claim liberalism … Continue reading
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What Is Post-Liberalism? Why Is This Topic So Hot Now?
LF: Here’s what I mean by post-liberalism: A recognition of the fictional nature of the buffered identity, and of liberalism with its focus on the individual and its rights, which constrains democracy, creates pluralism, which allows for elite rule, as … Continue reading
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The Lily Phillips Challenge To Liberalism (12-13-24)
01:00 Only Fans Brit Who Banged 100 Men in One Day is Kind of Our Fault, https://www.jollyheretic.com/p/only-fans-brit-who-banged-100-men05:00 Outrage over Lily Phillips, https://www.newsweek.com/lily-phillips-100-men-video-sparks-outrage-199920346:00 Republican asymmetrical advantages, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYNcJlbLFBo48:30 Why is the right obsessed with these purported mystery drones over New Jersey?1:01:00 Marc … Continue reading
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The Embodied Expression Of The Elite Attitude
In his Oct. 7, 2024 “Israel Update” video with the Hudson Institute’s Middle East analyst Michael Doran, right-wing Israeli historian Gadi Taub selected this as his dumbest media commentary moment of the week: “[Journalist] Ilana Dayan speaking on CNN to … Continue reading
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The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities By John J. Mearsheimer
Here are some excerpts from this 2018 book: Political liberalism, in fact, comes in two varieties: what some call modus vivendi liberalism and progressive liberalism, a terminology I use throughout this book.11 There are basically two important differences between them, … Continue reading
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Jim Goad Interview, Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism by James Burnham (7-13-18)
MP3. Charles writes on Amazon.com: “Suicide of the West,” subtitled “An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism,” is a classic work of political science, now fifty years old. It is much referred to by conservatives but little read … Continue reading
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10 Reasons Left-Wingers Cut Trump Voters From Their Lives
Dennis Prager writes: Many Hillary Clinton voters have ceased communicating with friends, and even family members, who voted for Donald Trump. It is so common that The New York Times published a front-page article on the subject headlined, “Political Divide … Continue reading
Intelligent people have ‘unnatural’ preferences and values that are novel in human evolution
REPORT: More intelligent people are significantly more likely to exhibit social values and religious and political preferences that are novel to the human species in evolutionary history. Specifically, liberalism and atheism, and for men (but not women), preference for sexual … Continue reading
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