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Has Liberalism Failed?

An Exchange
The Editors
December 3, 2018
Secularism and Modernity
Vatican II
Book Essay

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Article

Introducing the Symposium

Is the liberal tradition equipped to correct its own shortcomings, or must it be abandoned altogether? If so, are there alternatives?
By The Editors
December 3, 2018
Secularism and Modernity
Philosophy
postliberalism
Article

A Challenge, Not an Epitaph

Professor Deneen’s book spurs us to exercise our rights more wisely, thus proving that we are indeed capable of living as a community of liberated individuals
By Bryan Garsten
December 3, 2018
Secularism and Modernity
Philosophy
Book Essay
postliberalism
Article

Neoliberalism, Not Liberalism, Has Failed

The real task is not to identify a replacement for liberalism, but rather to correct decades of ideological polarization and institutional decline
By Samuel Moyn
December 3, 2018
Secularism and Modernity
Philosophy
Book Essay
Article

Liberalism and the Catholic Left

I want to make liberalism’s formal proposals a substantive reality. That entails going beyond its own modest requirements
By Matthew Sitman
December 3, 2018
Secularism and Modernity
Philosophy
Book Essay
postliberalism
Article

Another Missed Opportunity

There is an energetic debate taking place in the Catholic intellectual world. For the moment, it remains beyond the pages of this magazine
By Patrick J. Deneen
December 3, 2018
Secularism and Modernity
Philosophy
Book Essay
postliberalism

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