![]() ![]() ![]() By comparison, America seemed to be the place where greatness went to die. Leo Strauss, for instance, taught that liberalism had lowered the standards of the best political order as this would have been understood by either Plato or Nietzsche. For many of us who came of age during the Cold War, our first introductions to political philosophy were often couched as critiques of the reigning liberalism. Yet, as befits the author of The End of History and the Last Man, he insists that it is still the best-if not the only-game in town, but that it needs to be attentive to its own pathologies if it is to avoid eclipse by both the progressive left and the reactionary right.įukuyama’s book follows in a distinguished tradition of critical perspectives on liberalism. ![]() In his new book, Liberalism and its Discontents, Stanford political scientist Francis Fukuyama acknowledges the many ways in which liberalism has been corrupted. Liberalism that was once hailed as the constitutive Western ideology has shown signs of decrepitude bordering on senility. ![]() Many of these have a pronounced funereal air about them. Histories of liberalism have become the plat du jour. ![]()
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