Liberalism against Itself
Samuel Moyn’s latest book, Liberalism against Itself, begins and ends by invoking my 2018 book, Why Liberalism Failed. Moyn employs my book as a bookend in order to refute its thesis: “liberalism failed because it has succeeded.” Moyn seeks to counter, in effect, “liberalism has failed until now because it hasn’t really been tried.” In spite of a fundamentally opposite view of how to understand the current travails of the liberal order, Moyn and I, and our respective books, share a good deal in common…
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