I am completely obsessed with the question of whether liberalism failed in response to Covid.
If liberalism failed then we are now seeking an alternative to liberalism.
If liberalism did not fail then perhaps we are seeking a return to liberalism.
In the search for answers I've read two books recently, Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick Deneen and Liberalism Against Itself by Samuel Moyn.
They are very different books - Patrick Deneen is a conservative who is criticizing liberalism from the right while Samuel Moyn is a liberal who is trying to defend liberalism from its misguided proponents.
The paradox of Machiavelli is that he is despised even though his ideas were the catalyst for the liberalism that most people love today.
I'm still agnostic on the question of whether liberalism failed in the current crisis.
https://brownstone.org/articles/did-liberalism-fail-the-test-of-covid/
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