Ep 71: The Downfall of Global Liberalism (Guest: Philip Plinkington)

We’re living through the collapse of an order that once claimed to be the end of history.

Global liberalism — the system that promised prosperity, openness, and permanent progress — is no longer governing societies. It’s managing decline.

In his manifesto, Pilkington argues that liberalism didn’t fail because it was betrayed, but because it succeeded too completely. It shed its limits, abandoned politics for technocracy, and replaced democratic consent with moral administration. Markets inflated while real economies hollowed out. Elites detached. Dissent was moralized, not answered.

What remains is a system that is simultaneously more coercive and less legitimate — unable to reform, yet desperate to persist.

This isn’t a prediction of revolution. It’s a diagnosis of fragmentation, paralysis, and the slow return of history.

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