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Anti-fascism, a vaccine that did not work

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Jul

Anti-fascism, COVID19, Italy, Liberalism, oligarchism, totalitarianism

Anti-fascism, a vaccine that did not work

BY: Franco Marino Translated BY: Costantino Ceoldo PEJOURNAL - The amazement of those who are witnessing the birth of a new totalitarianism in a country [our Italy] that for seventy years has praised anti-fascism in all its guises is understandable. Yet, sixteen months of virus spilled in the media twenty-four hours a day, should have briefly explained how a vaccine works. The principle of which, subject to some possible corrections, should be more or less clear: by inoculating the human body with attenuated or dead viruses, one should stimulate an immune response such as to immunize us against that virus.…

Foreign Policy: The Pandemic Could Be the Crisis Liberalism Needed

BY: Matt Warner* , Tom G. Palmer* PEJOURNAL - The world may be reaching a dangerous inflection point for liberalism. According to the latest reports from Freedom House, over the last 15 years the share of unfree countries in the world has risen while the share of free countries has dropped. Today, government deficits are spiking in response to the public’s demand for intervention to mitigate the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, and some warn that authoritarian leaders are seizing the opportunity to expand their control. Still, this may be a time when liberalism starts to gain ground, not…

Newsweek: Liberalism Has Failed

BY: Patrick J. Deneen PEJOURNAL - Most people agree that a defining feature of America is that it is a liberal nation. In a way, that is not true of any other country—most of which have known different forms of political governance and political self-understanding. From its political inception, America has oftentimes been defined by its adherence to liberal philosophy. Conservatives such as George Will and Jonah Goldberg, and liberals such as Yascha Mounk and Barack Obama—for all their differences—believe that America is liberal, and that the way out of our current political brokenness is to restore its liberal foundations.…