“Western liberalism is under siege” A conversation between Edward Luce and David Frum

“Western liberalism is under siege,” Financial Times columnist and Phil Lind Initiative speaker Edward Luce warns in his new book, The Retreat of Western Liberalism. Written in the wake of Brexit in the UK and Trump’s election to the presidency in the US, the book argues that elite complacency and contempt for the disadvantaged have weakened democracy to a point where it is “far closer to collapse than we may wish to believe.”

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The Retreat of Western Liberalism