N.B. This is one of our later-than-normal Tuesday events!
Event Time: 4pm PT/7pm ET/11am (Wed.) AET
“What Happened to Liberalism?”
Samuel Moyn in conversation with Becca Rothfeld
Liberalism is in crisis – but why, exactly, and how did we get here?
In his new book, Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times, leading historian Samuel Moyn argues that by the mid-twentieth century, many liberals, recoiling from totalitarianism and devastating wars, redefined liberalism around a new ideal: preserving individual liberty at all costs.
Denouncing this stance, as well as the recent nostalgia for Cold War liberalism as a corrective to illiberal values today, Moyn calls for a new emancipatory and egalitarian liberal philosophy – a path to undoing the damage of the Cold War and to ensuring the survival of liberalism.
In this conversation, Moyn discusses his argument with Washington Post nonfiction book critic and Boston Review contributing editor Becca Rothfeld, who reviewed Moyn’s book for the Post in August. You can find out more and register here.