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Decline of Liberalism ?
It is time to take stock of problems of liberalism.More and more scholars are writing about the sorry state of affairs of liberalism.Of the many, two are more serious scholars who have come come out with two excellent works on the the decline of liberalism.One is Edward Luce who wrote “The Retreat of Western Liberalism”(2017) and other is Mark Lilla who wrote “The Once and Future Liberal : After Identity Politics “(2017). There is a common thread joining both the books and that is their worry…
Remarkable Historian Yuvan Noah Harari
One of the fascinating thing about human being is the capacity to think. René Descartes, the French Philosopher has aptly summed up : Cogito ergo sum (I think therefore I am). We usually think about our job, family, health, money, car, immediate problems and celebrations, power and social responsibility etc.But once we settle down in our routine life we tend to ask ourselves what the hell we are doing on the earth.From where we have come, why we have come and what is our future.I am reminded of a joke.A man went to a hotel to stay.The receptionist asked…