This panel write-up (accompanied by the video, if you prefer) is well worth the time for folks interested in political theory. Mark Lilla, William Galston, and David French talk about the rise of "post-liberalism" and the roots of a range of authoritarian thinking in conservative thought today.
Slight CW for some bad presumptions on trans issues near the end, but most of the piece reflects on the struggle to keep liberal constitutional #democracy afloat.
https://open.substack.com/pub/theunpopulist/p/is-there-anything-new-in-the-new
And then, for those more #Essay-oriented, consider this firecracker of a direct defence of liberalism in many of its forms.
"The liberal promise is not that bad stuff doesn't happen. ... What it promises is that with liberal norms and institutions in place, free people tend to find solutions. But when we reject liberal principles, workable solutions are much less likely to be found."
#Politics #PoliticalTheory
https://open.substack.com/pub/theunpopulist/p/the-bogus-post-liberal-indictment