Thank you to Professor A.C. Grayling, Manon Royet, Noah Smith, Tabitha Boyton, Barbara Listek and Alex James for your contributions and fantastic insights!
From the rise of populism to the increasing growth of inequalities and now the existential crisis of climate change it seems for many more justified than ever to ask if maybe the modern world needs a massive rethink to avoid disaster. Such a realisation poses a massive problem for the dominant ideology of our age, liberalism. Is the predicament we're in now as individuals, nations and indeed an entire species the result of an over-commitment to liberal tenants or a failure to recognise them sufficiently. Is a post-liberal future on the horizon and if so is that a good or bad thing? What would it even mean to go about understanding/constructing a post-liberal world order after its seemingly unrivalled dominance for so long? Is it even possible? All these questions and more will be discussed with our panel of students and experts as we try and parse out whether the 21st will be another century of liberal triumphalism or where the ideology finally meets its (perhaps overdue?) end.
-Edited by Rodrigo Rivera Pivaral - @rodrigoriverap2