Reclaiming the Centre: Is the Old Political Order Dead? (Adrian Wooldridge)

This week, the columnist and author Adrian Wooldridge joins Amol
to argue that liberalism is not only the best ideology for the
future, but that it’s also under serious threat. Wooldridge sees
populist movements on the right and identity-focused politics on
the left as potentially fatal to liberal principles. The once
dominant post-war philosophy has had a bad rap recently, so why
should we bring it back? Has liberalism itself grown complacent?
Is it now an out-of-touch establishment, failing to address
modern challenges like social cohesion and corporate power? To
survive, Wooldridge says, we must take radical steps to renew
liberalism for the modern age and embrace the political centre
again.


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Amol Rajan presents the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 and hosts
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