the pursuit of liberalism
a new joint project!
The excellent Henry Oliver and I have started a new joint Substack, called The Pursuit of Liberalism!
Its tagline, and our grand aim, is “refocusing classical liberalism on the arts and philosophy alongside economics”.
I’ll still be writing here just as regularly. But if you like what you read here, and/or you like what you read at Henry’s fantastic The Common Reader, then I hope you’ll think about subscribing to The Pursuit of Liberalism (for free!)..
Here’s an extract from our first post:
Liberalism is already gaining new cultural and practical relevance. New interest in the liberal arts is coming from technologists and others online. Classical liberal answers are emerging to solve today’s problems. AI is disrupting the old order of intellectuals, just as the internet once did.
The Pursuit of Liberalism is an experiment in this spirit.
We are as committed to advocating for human flourishing, as to describing economic reality. We will argue for the enduring relevance of the arts and philosophy to classical liberalism.
Our aim is to revive the broad classical-liberal tradition. We will argue for its place in an innovative world. We don’t need a new liberalism. We need a new way of helping people to see it for what it is.
You can expect lots of philosophy..