Is the postwar liberal order finally coming undone? And if so – what comes next? The liberal order is dying – not liberalism as an idea, but the postwar regime of managed decline, elite control, and fake freedom. This talk exposes how that order hollowed out real autonomy, smothered politics, and bred a generation of anxious, atomised subjects. But if it's ending, what replaces it? Populist parties are rising – but do they have the stomach for revolution, or just nostalgia and slogans? With five sharp tests – from institutional guts to faith in ordinary people – this lecture challenges any would-be populist movement to prove it stands for freedom, not just power.