Source: Law & Liberty
by Zachary Yost
“In recent years, there has been growing concern with right-wing attacks on liberalism broadly conceived. A ‘post-liberal’ movement came into being, spearheaded by Patrick Deneen’s 2018 book Why Liberalism Failed. While post-liberalism as an organized intellectual movement seems to have petered out, its ethos has lived on and appears to be growing more and more popular among young people who not only question liberalism in the abstract but are alienated from the concrete institutions and ideas that make up our liberal society and see little value in them. … A powerful symbol of this rejection is the embrace among some right-wing populists of the National Socialist political theorist Carl Schmitt and his concept of the ‘friend-enemy distinction.'” (11/06/25)