Edmund Fawcett is author of Liberalism: The Life of an Idea (Princeton University Press). An expanded second edition with new chapters on liberal democracy's current failings is out next month. He is writing a companion history of the political right.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The daunting task of repair“Let’s agree on essentials: on what liberalism is and isn’t, on how liberalism is failing and on how much tougher liberals ought to be in their own defence.”
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Published in: HomeThe hard right and its threats to democratic liberalismUnlike the hard right I have not conjured up an imaginary Other, but identified a genuine adversary in a struggle over democratic liberalism that is already engaged.