What Accounts for Liberalism’s Unpopularity?
Sheltering in Place Has Warped Our Relationship to Violence
Every day I see another article in a mainstream publication questioning, if not bashing, liberalism (the social contract theory developed by Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau). I find myself wondering, “Why now?” Where were these articles and writers five years ago? Why has it become fashionable in 2021 to criticize liberalism from both the left and the right?
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