It’s a measure of the stresses bearing down on the post-1989 liberal order that its chief ideologist, Francis Fukuyama, feels compelled to write a book-length defense of liberalism (already published in Britain, and forthcoming in May in North America). In it, the author aims to answer “classical” liberalism’s increasingly assertive challengers—both on the identitarian or “critical-theory” left and the post-liberal right; among the latter camp, he notably calls out Compact contributing editors Adrian Vermeule and Patrick Deneen and, well, me.
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