Is there hope for liberalism? Our editor Jake Meador doesn’t think so, following in the footsteps of Alistair Macintyre and Stanley Hauerwas. Alistair Roberts sums up many of the ways in which liberalism (which, as Jake has pointed out, should be thought of more in terms of “classical liberalism” than “progressivism”) is self-destructive. It’s a complex argument, but the basic premises shared by critics of liberalism is that the modern emphasis on autonomy and freedom from all constraints erodes the social, cultural, and religious foundation that help human being love and relate to one another as we ought. Jake also emphasizes liberalism’s distrust of non-empirical knowledge, which leads to a pervasive distrust in moral claims on public life.
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