What the Economist gets wrong about Liberalism: https://goo.gl/jo1XUV | For once, Pankaj Mishra seems to have something here but only partially
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There are two points to the failure of Liberalism, one self-inflicted and the other is the conservative/traditional impulse. Rebutting the former is not worth a warm bucket of spit, delusional as its adherents are; the case for the latter has been made at least since Burke and
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its precepts can be found as far back as Aristotle, the Bible, and the epics in the West. Wonder if Mishra can think through to a non-Liberal modernity - then he'll really understand what the Economist gets wrong about Liberalism
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Arguably, the Japanese have successfully instantiated a non-liberal modernity.
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Yes, and I'm still holding out hope for Israel...
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Hard to overcome those socialist laborite kibbutzim roots! Perhaps, Jabotinsky needs to be used to re-forge the foundation.
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