Issue No.
64
January 2013
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| Welcome to January’s review of books |
 Tim Black
By the 1930s, few in the West felt like defending either liberalism or its economic complement, the free market. History, it seemed, was on neither's side. As we now know, however, free-market liberalism did make a come-back during the second half of the twentieth century. Indeed, thanks in part to the intellectual talents of figures such as Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman, it is often said that right won the economic argument. Yet, as Frank Furedi explains in his review of Angus Bergin's The Great Persuasion, what leading right-wing intellectuals failed to do was to provide the free market with a moral and social grounding. The result, he suggests, was profound: the crisis of liberalism in the modern era. We also have Brendan O'Neill on the middle-class Westerners colonising the Palestian territories; Para Mullan on the environmentalist threat to Asia; Jason Walsh in conversation with an offensive academic; and much more. [Cover illustration by Jan Bowman.] |
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