Modern history is no longer on the side of Western liberalism.

The liberal tradition that affirms human freedom and dignity against the forces of autocracy, reactionary conservatism and social conformism is profoundly honorable, and ought to be always defended. But “neo-liberalism” concerned with advancing the individual interests of the propertied and the shareholder is today endangered by grotesque levels of oligarchic power and domestic inequality, as well as formidable challenges from economic powers such as China that the capitalist West had once dominated and exploited. Read more ...