Book and essay critiques of liberalism circulate on the American right.
Post-liberals emerge (Sohrab Ahmari, Patrick Deneen)
Event Not yet reviewed This page has not yet been through the automated review pipeline.Writers including Patrick Deneen, Sohrab Ahmari and Adrian Vermeule publish book-length and essay critiques of liberalism that circulate widely on the American right.
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Deneen, P. J. (2018). Why Liberalism Failed. Yale University Press. Publisher page for the 2018 book (eBook 9 January 2018; paperback 26 February 2019). Supports the characterisation used here — the publisher's own description says the forces at work on political culture 'are not superficial flaws but inherent features of a system whose success is generating its own failure'. A superseded note also called it 'the most-cited anchor text for the writers grouped here'; that is an assessment of reception which this page does not carry and no cited source establishes, so it has been cut.
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Ahmari, S. (2019). Against David French-ism. First Things. Essay of 29 May 2019 arguing against a proceduralist approach to political conflict; the exchange it began is the usual marker for this dispute becoming public.
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Vermeule, A. (2020). Beyond Originalism. The Atlantic. Essay of 31 March 2020, published under the title 'Beyond Originalism', proposing 'common-good constitutionalism' in place of originalism — 'originalism has now outlived its utility' — and the source for Vermeule's inclusion in this grouping.
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Post-liberals emerge (Sohrab Ahmari, Patrick Deneen)
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