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The LRB at 40: Katrina Forrester and William Davies on the crisis of liberalism

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The Rawlsian Liberal Story

Liberalism in the 19th century was a form of often took a utilitarian form, colonial utilitarian liberalism and actually come the 50s and 60s after John Rawls that gets modeled on the United States. And of course, when you have exporting democracy, a kind of idea of modernization and with America at its helm baked in to liberalism. But it's not global in its aspirations in that sense. I mean, perhaps all liberalism's so global in their aspirations, but it's not deliberately so.

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