I haven’t yet read the book, but after hearing this interview, I will. The Financial Times’ chief US columnist Edward Luce on the future of liberalism and why recently the US and the UK have been more susceptible to populism than other countries.

From Weekly Filet #237, in June 2017.

Edward Luce on The Retreat of Western Liberalism

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