Waleed Aly’s ‘Time of Monsters’: a warning from one liberal to others

By Adam Wakeling

Aly’s position is that the current forms of post-liberalism are unlikely to offer a workable alternative to western liberal democracy. In his view, Left-wing post liberalism is “exhausting to no achievable end”, while conversative post-liberals seem more interested in “prosecuting fairy standard right wing culture wars under another banner” than building a lasting alternative structure. In my view, both these observations are sound.

On the other hand, Aly “cannot imagine a final victory for Liberalism” either.

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