The End of Liberalism Williamson Chilton
The End of Liberalism Williamson Chilton In the fourth title in the Dissident American Thought Today Series, Chilton Williamson takes on liberalism and reveals the 'faith' of the present Democratic…
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The End of Liberalism Williamson Chilton
In the fourth title in the Dissident American Thought Today Series, Chilton Williamson takes on liberalism and reveals the 'faith' of the present Democratic Party as its own cultivated version of absurdity. If it were once true that conservatism is unimaginative and reactionary, the contrary is the picture of our times. This 'advanced liberalism' is not the liberalism of Mill, and it certainly no longer is the thinking man's party.
The age of the expert has been thrust upon the United States with the urgency of technique to be applied to coerce the vision of a perfect society and perfect human beings.Williamson observes that this liberalism to nevertheless be collapsing, given the obvious opposition to the idea that it is essential to modernity. Liberalism now asserts that human nature can and must be perfected, but without reference to nature. Liberalism is ironically a kind of