Status Updates From Why Liberalism Failed

Generally, it is an interesting critique of liberalism, but it reaches some funky conclusions because it seems unwilling to acknowledge some of its accomplishments. Chapter 3 is definitely my least favorite so far.

In which we get an eye-rollingly generic critique of the humanities in the university, & also a kind of fun account accusing American liberal democracy's of having built-in mechanism for inhibiting the people's ability and willingness to Do Democracy, & continuity in this between the Founders and the New Deal Progressives.

"the great financial crisis was caused by the financial equivalent of hookup culture" is an all-timer why did I never hear about this. also I think Deneen maybe thinks you shouldn't be gay.

so far aggressively fine & inoffensive (imo lots of the critiques read like something your woke anthropology prof would say) and definitely cogent at points but hysterical that for a while we were all supposed to pretend that this kind of catholic communitarianism & classicist virtue theory had anything to do with like Trump etc. other than the support of the writers