Will we end up removing the works of Pablo Picasso from museums or tearing down the statues of Christopher Columbus according to the mainstream of our times? The Economist asks it in an editorial, of which we publish the Italian version, which…
The assumption that the middle class remains the backbone of democracy is still the most accredited thesis among scholars but the drifts of a part of the bourgeoisie towards populism or towards illiberal policies fuel doubts, as he writes…
A recent book by historian Quinn Slobodian offers an original thesis on the birth and real goals of neoliberalism and its current crisis that deserves to be discussed
Brexit and Trump's rise to the White House have upended the paradigms of political science - Now the Israeli scholar Yuval Noah Harari, who leads the bookshop, suggests in a new book published by goWare a new post-liberal order…
It is thanks to Harriet Taylor, John Stuart Mill's wife, if modern liberalism has a clearly feminist imprint: it was she who influenced her husband's thinking by inseminating themes such as those related to women's rights initially unrelated to the narrative...
Against galloping sovereignty and populism, the most brilliant think tank in the world - that of the London magazine The Economist - rethinks liberalism and launches a manifesto to revitalize it by adapting it to our times
Among the great enemies of liberalism are the French Enlightenment and the two German thinkers, different from each other but united by dissent towards the liberal vision of progress but liberalism, unlike its critics, does not believe it has…
The Economist reviews the thought of Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls and Robert Nozick and concludes by recalling that all the great post-war liberals affirmed that individuals must have the strength to resist the oppression of…
Revisiting the theories of the great liberal thinkers in a topical key, the Economist arrives - with regard to Keynes - to conclusions that at first sight seem paradoxical such as the one according to which "Keynesianism works better in the hands of the Hayekians" -…
The excessive power of Big Tech in the USA, the authoritarianism of Chinese power and the populism that is advancing in Europe seem to give new relevance to the demo-pessimism of a refined bishop of liberalism like Alexis de Tocqueville, dusted off by the Economist forum
The global crisis has displaced not only liberalism but also liberalism and paved the way for protectionism and populism - This is why The Economist has opened a debate on the future of modern liberalism by revisiting some thinkers of the…
