The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism
by Adrian Wooldridge · 7 Apr 2026 · 342pp · 129,097 words
hot weather.21 To the embarrassment of the contemporary left, Marx fully supported the liberal idea that the non-European world was hopelessly static until liberal capitalism came and gave it a liberating shove.22 It is impossible to put an exact date on the arrival of the age of mobility: history
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energy and enterprise than the other way round. Yet the backlash against ‘liberal imperialism’ continues. The progressive left is laser-focused on the links between liberalism, capitalism and imperialism. Some progressives try to elide the distinction between capitalism and imperialism as if empires had never existed before Adam Smith wrote. Some throw
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in a world that has lost its meaning and become amorphous and alienating,’ argues the French scholar of religion Gilles Kepel.11 The more that liberal capitalism tears up traditional Islamic civilization by the roots, the more people are likely to turn to fundamentalism to reassert meaning in their lives. Fundamentalism feeds
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side of, leaders of liberalism concern about 201–2 debate, freedom of and 214–16 globalization and 153 information capitalism xii, xxii, 202, 208–17 liberal capitalism 15, 181 liberal imperialism and 118, 126 limited-liability company 27 meritocracy and 79–81, 144, 206–7 oligarchy and 202–5 Ordoliberals and 111
The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy
by Gil Durán · 17 Aug 2026 · 317pp · 114,570 words
of many forms of compulsion.” But in place of supernatural miracles they substitute miraculous new technologies that would purify the world of liberal democracy and liberate capitalism from all political constraints—after defeating the evil force of the “new Luddites” who would rise in opposition to this massive transformation. Davidson and Rees
From Peoples into Nations
by John Connelly · 11 Nov 2019
system of minority treaties had failed. Germans and Magyars had proved incapable of acting as loyal Czechoslovak citizens. Thus, Europe was dividing not only between liberal capitalism and people’s democracy, but also between the new internationalism in the West and nation-statism in the East, frozen beneath the power of the
War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt
by Kwasi Kwarteng · 12 May 2014 · 632pp · 159,454 words
showed the single-mindedness with which Britain applied itself to winning the war. The London of 1914 had been the home of Lombard Street, of liberal capitalism, of the upper-class world depicted by writers like P. G. Wodehouse and John Galsworthy. Yet, in a sudden reversal, Britain would tax its capitalists
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
by Rick Perlstein · 17 Mar 2009 · 1,037pp · 294,916 words
party was formed in the 1850s to fight the spread of slavery, and also to fight for something: the ideal that would later be called liberal capitalism—every man making the best for himself through his own hard work, every farmhand aspiring to be a farmer, every factory hand aspiring to own
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the Chicago banquet, see George B. Russell, J. Bracken Lee: The Taxpayer’s Champion (New York: Robert Spellers and Sons, 1961), 154. My interpretation of liberal capitalism and the founding of the Republican Party is from Malcolm Moos, The Republicans: A History of Their Party (New York: Random House, 1956), 30; and
American Marxism
by Mark R. Levin · 12 Jul 2021 · 314pp · 88,524 words
the European Commission. The idea of ‘socially sustainable degrowth,’ or simply degrowth, was born as a proposal for radical change. The contemporary context of neo-liberal capitalism appears as a post-political condition, meaning a political formation that forecloses the political and prevents the politicization of particular demands. Within this context, degrowth
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by Niall Ferguson · 28 Feb 2011 · 790pp · 150,875 words
operating systems, to draw a metaphor from computing – that could be adopted by non-Western societies. But the most attractive were all of European origin: liberal capitalism, national socialism, Soviet communism. The Second World War killed the second in Europe, though it lived on under assumed names in many developing countries. The
How Asia Works
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Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies
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economy to foreign capital. This was not simply a Washington project. The Europeans and IMF bureaucrats were equally enthusiastic and began encouraging developing countries to liberalize capital as well as trade accounts.93 The premise was that low savings and weak financial markets hampered development. Access to funds from abroad would boost
Aftermath: Following the Bloodshed of America's Wars in the Muslim World
by Nir Rosen · 21 Apr 2011 · 1,016pp · 283,960 words
occupation was to transform Iraq into a free-market economy. One of the first measures taken by the American occupation was to impose laws that liberalized capital accounts, currency trading, and investment regulations, and lifted price regulations and most state subsidies. An important principle guiding the occupation was not to invest in
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