Adrian Wooldridge is the global business columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. He is the author or co-author of 12 books, including Centrists of the World Unite: The Lost Genius of Liberalism.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Adrian Wooldridge discuss how liberalism emerged as a solution to concrete historical problems, why the fundamental challenges liberalism addressed in the 17th and 18...
Patterns detected: ARC-0012 (Framing) – The article employs a framing device by positioning “post-liberals and left-wing identitarians” as critics of a “shallow philosophy” within liberalism, inherently creating a dichotomy. This frames the debate as one of depth versus superficiality, rather than exploring the complexities of liberal evolution. The language subtly suggests that the established liberal thinkers have failed to address fundamental questions of meaning, a classic manipulation tact...