Only recently has this definition expanded to include, to varying degrees, women, African Americans, LGBTQ+ people, and other historically marginalized groups. In the United States, many have long been denied equality before the law, excluded from the category of full human beings worthy of universal rights. It’s no secret that liberalism hasn’t always lived up to its own ideals. It emphasizes the rights of individuals to pursue their own forms of happiness free from encroachment by government. Developed in the wake of Europe’s wars over religion and nationalism, liberalism is a system for governing diverse societies that is grounded in fundamental principles of equality and the rule of law. An urgent, incisive examination of the challenges to liberalism, by the bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order.Ĭlassical liberalism is in a state of crisis.
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