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  • The Lost History of Liberalism From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century | Helena Rosenblatt

    The Lost History of Liberalism From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century | Helena Rosenblatt

    “I have been reading and thinking about liberalism for so long it would be impossible to list and thank all the scholars whose work has informed and shaped mine.” (HELENA ROSENBLATT, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS) What does it mean to be a liberal, and how has the meaning of the word evolved over decades and even centuries? The…

  • Liberals and Nationalism: Countering the Linguistic Coup on Western Values

    Liberals and Nationalism: Countering the Linguistic Coup on Western Values

    “What is there about ethno-nationalism now that rallies voters, but hasn’t done so before?” (Ivan Krastev, Central Europe is a Lesson to Liberals: Don’t Be Anti-Nationalist) Misunderstanding what is nationalism lies often in our confusion of terms and theoretical frame of reference. Nationalism, which was not seen as the end of the means, became increasingly…