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** PRESENTS
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SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT
Icon Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.


** H. W. Longfellow
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Whither liberalism? The question might not be so much a live choice as a recognition of reality. From the archive, authors reflect on evolving powers, the dead consensus, and the philosophy of liberalism.
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FROM THE NOVEMBER 2024 ISSUE


** Actually Existing Postliberalism ([link removed])
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** NATHAN PINKOSKI
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Neutral institutions, particularly financial ones, have been weaponized to serve political ends.
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FROM MARCH 2019


** Against the Dead Consensus ([link removed])
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** VARIOUS
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There is no returning to the pre-Trump conservative consensus that collapsed in 2016.
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FROM THE SEPTEMBER 2012 ISSUE


** Unsustainable Liberalism ([link removed])
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** PATRICK J. DENEEN
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Liberalism cannot perpetually enforce order upon a collection of autonomous individuals increasingly shorn of constitutive social norms.
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