Matt McManus is the author of "The Rise of Postmodern Conservatism" amongst other books and a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Michigan.
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Samantha and fellow Liberal Currents editor Paul Crider talk to Matt McManus, author of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism, about a forgotten political tradition, the intellectual fallout of the Russian Revolution, and what this all means for how we think about the contemporary dangers of oligarchy and reaction. Liberal.
The intellectual history of this seemingly contradictory political tendency.
Scruton was a serious and thoughtful philosopher whose views warrant careful engagement.
A liberal vision with a long tradition.
Where conservatives may seek to conserve their democratic systems, reactionaries by their nature seek to weaken or abolish them.
The 20th century political theorist has much to offer for the contemporary left liberal.
Can we still draw hope from the past successes of Swedish social democracy?
A leftist alternative to originalism is needed now more than ever
On Elizabeth Anderson's Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back
Samuel Moyn argues that Cold War liberals abandoned liberalism's revolutionary promise.
Liberal institutions straightway cease from being liberal, the moment they are soundly established: once this is attained no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions! One knows, of course, what they bring about: they undermine the Will to Power, they are the levelling of mountain
…We may reject the contention that the ordering of institutions is always defective because the distribution of natural talents and the contingencies of social circumstance are unjust, and this injustice must inevitably carry over to human arrangements. Occasionally this reflection is offered as an excuse for ignoring injustice, as if