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THE TROUBLE WITH LIBERALISM

July 1, 2019 by Kenan Malik

This essay, on the crisis facing liberalism, and why it is not the one that Vladimir Putin thinks it is, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 30 June 2019, under the headline ‘Liberalism is facing a crisis. But it’s not what Vladimir Putin thinks’. ‘What we may be witnessing is the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalisation of western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.’ So wrote Francis Fukuyama in his […]

Categories: International, Politics • Tags: conservatism, francis fukuyama, individualism, left, liberalism, neoliberalism, vladimir putin, working class

POPULISM AND IMMIGRATION

October 5, 2017 by Kenan Malik

This is a transcript of a talk given to the European School of Politics in Istanbul, 30 September 2017. It pulls together many of the themes of which I have written in recent years. The obvious point of departure for a talk on populism and immigration is last week’s German elections. The election took place under the shadow of the European Union’s migration crisis and the debate about Angela Merkel’s refugee policies. Merkel was retuned to power for a fourth […]

Categories: Politics, Race & Immigration • Tags: afd, brexit, class identity, european union, francis fukuyama, germany, identity politics, immigration, left, migration crisis, populism, refugees, social democracy, solidarity, spain, working class

FROM THE END OF HISTORY TO 2016

December 29, 2016 by Kenan Malik

© Art Projects International; Courtesy of artist and Art Projects International, New York . ‘What we may be witnessing is the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.’ So wrote Francis Fukuyama in his seminal 1989 essay ‘The End of History?’. ‘With the fall of the Soviet Union’, Fukuyama continued, ‘The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one’s life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide […]

Categories: Politics • Tags: 2016, end of history, francis fukuyama, identity politics, left, managerialism, populism, working class

FROM THE VAULTS: STONE AGE POLITICS

July 11, 2013 by Kenan Malik

I am away for the next few weeks, but rather than abandon Pandaemonium, I thought I would again raid the vaults, as it were, for old material that I have not published here. So, for the next few weeks, I have dug out essays, reviews, talks and broadcasts, broadly on the theme of human nature. Back in 2001, I gave a series of three talks on BBC Radio 4’s Westminster Hour entitled ‘Man, Beast and Politics’ that explored the political impact […]

Categories: Human, Politics, Science & Technology • Tags: darwinism, evolutionary psychology, francis fukuyama, human nature, matt ridley, peter singer, sociobiology