Post-Liberal Right

The post-liberal right is an intellectual current arguing that liberalism — the political tradition of individual rights, market allocation and state neutrality between conceptions of the good — has failed on its own terms. Its central claim is that liberalism’s problems are not deviations from it but consequences of it.

Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed (Yale, 2018) is the statement that gave the current its public profile, and the year the previous version of this page used as its founded date.

It is an argument, not a movement

This is the reason the page is short and its keyTactics are publishing and argument.

There is no organization, no membership, no campaign and no candidate. What exists is a body of writing, a set of journals, and disagreement conducted mostly in print and at conferences. Treating it as a movement in the sense the rest of this collection uses — something that mobilizes people — overstates what it is.

Vallier’s critique in Political Studies is cited alongside Deneen because the argument is contested within academic political theory, and a page presenting only the position would misrepresent the state of the debate.

Relationship to catholic-integralists

That page covers a specific strand of this current. The two overlap heavily and are separated on grounds no source cited on either draws. This is recorded as a merge candidate in reports/citations/movements.md.

What was removed

The founded field, which read 2018, has been removed: 2018 is the publication date of one book, and the arguments the current makes are considerably older than it. The previous version’s account of the current’s growth and influence was unsourced and has been removed.