Diagnoses of the supposed “crisis of liberalism” have become a booming cottage industry, especially since the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum and Donald Trump’s election in the United States. But, writes Princeton’s Jan-Werner Mueller, most seem to misapprehend what the liberal political project is really about.

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Liberalism’s Forever Crisis
By Jan-Werner Mueller

Across Western democracies, one finds many who casually dismiss liberalism as a self-justifying ideology for economic “winners” or colonialism. But with conservatives openly fantasizing about imposing their moral orthodoxy on the whole society, liberalism’s critics should be careful what they wish for.
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