This is the opening to my essay on the the philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre, rpublished in the Observer on 1 June 2025. You can read the full version in the Observer. “Since I understood liberalism,” Alasdair MacIntyre once told an interviewer, “I have wanted nothing to do with it.” His death, last month, has robbed us of one of the most important moral philosophers of the past century. Born in Glasgow in 1929, he spent most of his life teaching in America. […]

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