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#082 - Philip Pilkington - A Post-Mortem: The Death Of Liberalism (& The Rise Of A New World Order)
Philip Pilkington is a macroeconomist and investment professional. He is the author of a book on economic theory, The Reformation in Economics and his most recent book is The Collapse Of Global Liberalism: And The Emergence Of A Post-Liberal World Order. Philip also runs the Macrocosm substack. Philip regularly writes for a variety of outlets, including Unherd, The Spectator, The Telegraph, The New York Post, Moneyweek, First Things, American Affairs, The Critic, and Postliberal Order. He is co-host of the popular geopolitics podcast Multipolarity. Philip also has a significant following on X @philippilk.
In this conversation, Philip and I think out loud about why global liberalism as ruling ideology has collapsed globally, why modern liberalism might have been a phenomenon of the baby boomers, the contradictions in American democracy, why many of the social issues we see today are due to what Philip calls 'hyper-liberalism', why humans resist being seen as economic widgets alone and why the distance between liberal philosophers and those deemed 'far-right' are smaller than you think, why it is liberals and not nationalists that are war-mongers, how the Russia-Ukraine war demonstrates the impotence of the standard-bearers of global liberalism in the West, why the great man theory is true, and much much more.
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