Tag Archives: Modern Liberalism

James Burnham on liberalism and decline

by Aschwin de Wolf Posted on October 11, 2009

James Burnham’s Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism proposes the thesis that modern liberalism is the ideology of a society in decline; its doctrines motivate and justify the contraction of Western civilization and … Continue reading →

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Classical liberalism without philosophy

by Aschwin de Wolf Posted on May 11, 2009

In a blog post for the New Republic Alan Wolfe writes: “What my critics call modern liberalism is instead the logical and sociological outcome of classical liberalism.” He further writes in another blog post that “A liberal society, I believe, … Continue reading →

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John Rawls and the sin of merit

by Aschwin de Wolf Posted on March 26, 2009

For those who have always suspected a strong religious undertone in the writings of John Rawls, the following piece by Joshua Cohen and Thomas Nagel will come as a revelation. Reflecting on Rawls’s senior thesis “A Brief Inquiry into the … Continue reading →

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