Zack Beauchamp

If Trumpism is failing, as I think it is, that creates a possibility for a liberal revival.

If Trumpism is failing, as I think it is, that creates a possibility for a liberal revival.

Well, I cheated a little bit because I started with political liberalism. And I think that if there is any way to get out of the crisis, we need to begin in part by starting with foundational principles, right? And political liberalism is, I think, a really important text here.

Well, I cheated a little bit because I started with political liberalism. And I think that if there is any way to get out of the crisis, we need to begin in part by starting with foundational principles, right? And political liberalism is, I think, a really important text here.

I think another book, which I just started rereading, is Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, not because it sort of answers these big picture questions about what political systems are like, but because it's a character portrait of one man's role in a vast machinery of horrifying political outcomes.

I think another book, which I just started rereading, is Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, not because it sort of answers these big picture questions about what political systems are like, but because it's a character portrait of one man's role in a vast machinery of horrifying political outcomes.

And seeing what Eichmann was like and seeing the parallels between him and contemporary functionaries in competitive authoritarian regimes on a personal level, I found very revealing, even if these governments are vastly different from Nazi Germany.

And seeing what Eichmann was like and seeing the parallels between him and contemporary functionaries in competitive authoritarian regimes on a personal level, I found very revealing, even if these governments are vastly different from Nazi Germany.

And I think for a third book, Matthew Rose's A World After Liberalism, to give you a sense of what the capacity for a post-liberal imaginary is like, what a world looks like when liberalism no longer is functioning, has been replaced for what it could be, what people want it to be in the future, what our order might be.

And I think for a third book, Matthew Rose's A World After Liberalism, to give you a sense of what the capacity for a post-liberal imaginary is like, what a world looks like when liberalism no longer is functioning, has been replaced for what it could be, what people want it to be in the future, what our order might be.