illiberality

It’s not just the big crises we read about every day — the ongoing atrocities in Ukraine, crackdowns in hotspots like Hong Kong, bitter political polarization in the United States, illiberality in Israel, Hungary and Turkey, to name just a few.

If you’ve been banned from your local school board’s meetings after repeatedly denouncing its members as globalist cucks, fear not: There is a decent chance that Carlson will book you on his show, nod sympathetically at your plight, and use your story to advance his own relentless case for the fundamental illiberality and intolerance of the elitist media and the woke left.

China’s economic miracle could not help but provoke geopolitical stress, given its size and illiberality.

Because illiberality doesn’t cure disease; curiosity does.

If they imitate at all, they should imitate the temperate, holy, free, courageous, and the like; but they should not depict or be able to imitate any kind of illiberality or other baseness, lest from imitation they come to be what they imitate.