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Nick Szabo· 2026-02-17 02:25
RT Christian Heiens 🏛 (@ChristianHeiens)“The greatest ideology known to mankind”That’s the problem.Liberalism universalizes its own assumptions and then treats everything else as illegitimate if it cannot justify itself in liberal terms.So what happens is that over time liberalism inherently lacks the ability to explain or defend or preserve anything which antedates itself, despite the fact that many of those things (nation, church, family, tradition) are essential to maintaining civilization itself.The Fou ...
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Nick Szabo· 2026-02-08 18:58
RT Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre)With all respect, noThe truth is that tribalism and inter-group competition still dominates politicsLiberalisms seeks to universalize and abstract the conflict, hoping to deny the essence of the political by turning everything into a “battle of ideologies”Clashes of civilizations become clashes of ideology, and once one ideology has won the contest of rational discourse we return to the “end of history” where politics disappears and the only disagreements are about how to ...
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The Economist· 2026-01-28 22:00
Today the greatest threat to liberalism comes from within Western democracies. How did the world get to this point? Find out with our interactive timeline https://t.co/8L4cXbAfQv ...
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Nick Szabo· 2026-01-28 15:41
RT Zoomer (@ZoomerHistorian)New Substack article about former Rhodesian Prime Minister Sir Garfield Todd who dedicated his life to liberalism, anti-racism and getting Mugabe into power.Mugabe, when he took control, ordered the rape of Todd's daughter and both Father and Daughter's passports were rescinded.Very interesting story and a warning for libtards everywhere!Link below! ...
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The Economist· 2025-10-25 19:40
Political Analysis - The greatest threat to liberalism comes from within Western democracies [1] - The report encourages readers to explore an interactive timeline to understand how the world reached this point [1]
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The Economist· 2025-10-25 17:40
The liberalism debate involves a tension between negative liberty, prioritising non-interference in people’s lives, and positive liberty, which can justify government intervention to promote individual autonomy. These thinkers questioned those ideas https://t.co/pSjN45cPi1 ...
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The Economist· 2025-10-24 14:40
Liberalism is an amorphous set of ideas, constructed on the fundamental principle that people are endowed with basic inalienable rights. Our primers dive into the foundations of the ideology https://t.co/uClTPbFNIo ...
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The Economist· 2025-10-24 14:20
Supporters of “identity politics” claim to be standing up for rights against unjust power. So do their opponents. If both claim to be “liberal”, does the word mean much at all? This is not a new problem: three post-war thinkers debated the same question https://t.co/xAQ35ERe4Z ...
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The Economist· 2025-10-23 15:30
Stalin and Mao invoked Marx; Hitler invoked Nietzsche.Each showed the dangers of power concentrating in people who professed to have all the answers. Liberalism’s greatest strength may be that it does not have them https://t.co/jeBo7p10Of ...
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The Economist· 2025-10-23 13:00
Liberalism tends to be marinated in optimism to such an extent that it sometimes shades into naivety. But Alexis de Tocqueville believed it needs to be served with a side-order of pessimism https://t.co/l1i4hSpaIT ...