/546/ Reading Club: Are We All Post-Liberal Now? ft. Geoff Shullenberger

On postliberalism, MacIntyre and Gray.

• How was the 1950s "end of ideology" (Bell, Lipset) different from the Fukuyaman 1990s "end of history"?

• Is John Gray correct in his characterisation of Alasdair MacIntyre as a prelapsarian?

• Does hyperliberal individualism lead to a search for meaning, and thus to communitarianism?

•  Is the competition between liberalism and post-liberalism now our political spectrum? 

• Is contemporary liberalism now reducible to professionalisation of the state and civil society?

• If liberalism has failed – a basic point of this podcast from the start – has post-liberalism now also failed?

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Links:

• The End of History and the End of the End of History, Alasdair MacIntyre

• How to Save British Liberalism, John Gray, New Statesman

• What ever happened to post-liberalism, Nicolas D Villarreal, Substack

• /533/ Reading Club: Illiberalism?