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An Interview with Philip Pilkington on the collapse of global liberalism and the postliberal fate of nations.

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Oct 07, 2025
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An interview with Philip Pilkington.

PLO: You’ve described global liberalism as a “delusional” post-Cold War vision about a frictionless free-flowing global economy. Can you tell us what made that delusion plausible for a time?

PP: To a large extent late liberalism just cannabilised what was left of the pre-liberal social capital. On my reading, liberali…

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