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We need to return to a politics of virtue

17 February 2025

8:00 PM

17 February 2025

8:00 PM

Why, since the 1970s, has liberalism become so virulent? And why is it inclined to break down, or to drastically mutate, as we now see?

In answer to the second question, liberalism involves a series of separations between different social aspects that have to be kept artificially apart, and yet which remain in tension, and can ultimately not be kept apart at all.

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