
Liberalism Reconstituted
The Enlightenment political project, for all its considerable merits, was doomed from the start.
The Enlightenment political project, for all its considerable merits, was doomed from the start.
This leaves us with the post-liberal task of somehow reconstituting the best of the old liberalism—its institutions and habits—on healthy, sustainable grounds.
In the past eighteen months of the Covid pandemic crisis, there has been a great deal of attention on how to control the governed—keep them inside, keep them separated, keep them masked, get them vaccinated—but relatively little on restraining the inevitable abuse or ill-advised use of that control.