John Stuart Mill and the Successful Failure of Liberalism

A political philosopher for our troubled times

The scholarly world has recently gone in for grand narratives of decline. The similarly-titled How Democracies Die and How Democracy Ends share a transatlantic frisson of horror at illiberal democracy, while offering different diagnoses of the problem. The erosion of liberal democratic norms, exacerbated by parties’ failure to choose centrist candidates, or liberal democracy's ...
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John Stuart Mill and the Successful Failure of Liberalism