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26.1.18

Death of Liberalism



Why Liberalism Failed. By Patrick Deneen. Yale University Press; 248 pages; $30 and £30.
OVER the past four centuries liberalism has been so successful that it has driven all its opponents off the battlefield. Now it is disintegrating, destroyed by a mix of hubris and internal contradictions, according to Patrick Deneen, a professor of politics at the University of Notre Dame.

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