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]

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is no exact beginning for the set of ideas that makes up liberalism. But England in 1688, with the Glorious Revolution, is as good a place and time to start as any https://t.co/93hu2z3lBv ...

Liberalism is a broad church—but there are limits. This primer sharpens its definition by setting it in opposition to a particular aspect of the thought of three anti-liberals: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche https://t.co/z5VXGSYXmo ...

Core Idea - The article traces the evolution of liberalism from its origins in social contract theory (Locke) to modern interpretations (Rawls), highlighting key figures, ideas, and historical events [1] Historical Context - The article explores the people, ideas, and world-shaking events that shaped liberalism [1] Scope - The article defines what liberalism is and is not today [1]

One of the greatest threats to liberalism now comes from within the very Western democracies it helped build. But this latest challenge is just one of many in its long history. How much do you know about liberal ideas? Test your knowledge with our quiz: https://t.co/utdey8Xa1t https://t.co/O4HeV2O7SH ...