"Voters in a capitalist democracy, on the other hand, can choose between better or worse responses to economic problems, which makes state officials more responsive to the public."

>"Though the language of cliché has switched from the middle-class respectability of the 1950s to our current obsessions with “inclusion” and concern for the marginalized, the practice of washing our clean linen in public endures in our _...Read More_

>"In his latest book, Francis Fukuyama pines for an old-time liberalism that is moot in today’s world."

>"Metamodern political thinking constitutes a breach with liberalism and liberal democracy as we know them. Not only is it a death sentence to the individual, like the one I issued in my previous post, it is also a virtuous attack on the _...Read More_

"Karl Marx celebrated liberalism’s achievements, such as freedom of the press, while excoriating its fidelity to private property rights. We can hold the same tension in our minds — fiercely opposing capitalism while fighting to make _...Read More_

"An exhibition packed with artworks that are bold, socially-engaged and smart. This review focuses on the pieces that look at labour conditions, migration and the ghosts of past conflicts"

"The Macintosh is counter-reformist and has been influenced by the ‘ratio studiorum’ of the Jesuits. It is cheerful, friendly, conciliatory, it tells the _...Read More_

>"The movement’s architects saw the inadequacy of liberal solutions to racial injustice. Yet the term has become a lullaby by which liberals self-soothe."

New critics of liberalism seek not to destroy but to fulfill its promise of individual freedom. They seek to find, just as John Dewey did, suitable modes of politics and economy in a fast-changing world — a liberalism for the people, not _...Read More_

>"At the center of Adorno’s work was a reminder that fascist movements are not exceptional to liberal democracy but signs of its failure."

If AI can’t replicate human intelligence, it nevertheless models the sort of intelligence needed to make liberalism coherent

> **Education under neoliberalism – a contradictory mix of competition and austerity promoting vaulted excellence over grounded learning.**