Tag: political philosophy

• Philosophy For Our Times: Why liberalism has failed | John Gray on civilisation, morality, and the illusion of progress

  December 31, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/qCOFxnW Why is the world moving away from liberalism and towards conservatism? One of Britain’s most provocative thinkers, John Gray is a political philosopher known for dismantling liberalism and… more ›

• ‘What Comes After Progressivism?’ with John Gray

  November 20, 2025

  ‘What Comes After Progressivism?’ as part of the Future of the Left Project with John Gray Political Philosopher Author of The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism (2023) and afterwards in… more ›

• Is Liberalism Dead? Fukuyama vs Gray

  November 5, 2025

  Is liberalism obsolete? Two great political philosophers debated this question on 22 March 2022. Professor Francis Fukuyama was joined in conversation by John Gray, the British political philosopher, who rejects… more ›

• Daniel Trilling · Is this fascism?

  August 15, 2025

  Are​ we, as Richard Seymour suggests, ‘in the early days of a new fascism’? In Disaster Nationalism, Seymour… https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n10/daniel-trilling/is-this-fascism more ›

• Futurology: After the End of History, an Age of Disorder (with Francis Fukuyama and Nathan Gardels)

  August 15, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/zUwhtmo More than three decades ago, Francis Fukuyama saw the future: a world order that looked inevitable, stable, liberal. What emerged instead is something bumpier, louder, and far more dangerous.… more ›

• The Gray Area with Sean Illing: Machiavelli on how democracies die

  May 26, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/GbRXUTK Almost nothing stands the test of time. Machiavelli's writings are a rare exception. Why are we still talking about Machiavelli, nearly 500 years after his death? What is… more ›

• “A new age of shamelessness” | Slavoj Žižek on Trump, authoritarians and “the new left”

  April 18, 2025

  Paddy O’Connell speaks to so-called ‘rock star’ philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Žižek, who argues the case for a more “authoritarian” left-leaning leader on the global stage. Newsnight is the… more ›