Adrian Wooldridge: Can Liberalism Save Itself?

In this latest Conflicted Conversation, journalist Adrian Wooldridge discusses his latest book Centrists of the World Unite: The Lost Genius of Liberalism (amzn.eu/d/069aH87K).

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Adrian and Thomas explore:

• Why liberalism is in crisis — and whether it can reinvent itself

• Modernity, permanent change and the birth of the liberal world

• Erasmus, tolerance and the case for a “chastened liberalism”

• Hobbes, individualism and whether liberalism misunderstands human nature

• John Stuart Mill, moral formation and the need for cultural elites

• Power, authority and how liberal distrust became a “democracy of disdain”

• Meritocracy, elite failure and the rise of the examination class

• Identity politics, minority rights and the limits of anti-majoritarian liberalism

• America, China and the unraveling of the liberal international order

• Can liberalism recover its moral foundations without Christianity?

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Conflicted is a Message Heard production.

Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren.

Produced and edited by Thomas Small .

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