Edmund Fawcett

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.

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.”

By Edmund Fawcett

/ 29 May 2018

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.”

By Edmund Fawcett

/ 29 May 2018

The hard right and its threats to democratic liberalism

Unlike 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.

By Edmund Fawcett

/ 7 Apr 2018