Patrick Deneen 18 November 2019
For all its benefits, why is liberalism failing, and making so many people unhappy, asks Patrick Deneen? Liberalism failed because it has succeeded. Its liberation of the individual coincides with a sense of political and economic powerlessness for ordinary citizens. The rise of a populist reaction ought to be understood not as evidence of “anti-democracy”, but the legitimate evidence of the need to reconsider classical commendations of the “mixed regime” theory.
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Venice 2019