The Retreat of Western Liberalism

by Edward Luce

The West’s global cities are like tropical islands surrounded by oceans of resentment.

Without a plural society democracy loses its foundation.

Another is to listen to what they say. Some of their anxieties are cultural. Others are economic.The

By giving people genuine vocational skills, they raise the quality of what they do.

Ancient thinkers always thought the rich posed a greater threat to the republic than the poor: they cling on far more tenaciously to what they have.

Benjamin Franklin’s wise words: ‘The price of liberty is eternal vigilance’.