Shikha dalmia conservative vs liberal

  • Yascha Mounk and Shikha Dalmia discuss American conservatism, the rise of authoritarian populism, and whether identitarians of the left are.
  • New conservatives have given up on scaling back the welfare state.
  • Liberalism judges every polity by whether it respects individual rights and allows religious pluralism.

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    Conservatives have spent the Obama era in the political wilderness. They are understandably eager to reclaim the reins of power. They understandably want to play to their strengths — and Democratic weakness — in tailoring an agenda to their core constituency: middle-class Americans.

    What is less understandable is why many conservatives have ended up with a mix of old and new liberal ideas that thoroughly scale back the right's long-running commitment to free markets and limited government. But that is exactly what reform conservatism — a hot new movement powered by about 50 of the brainiest young conservatives — does.

    Reformicons, as they are called, deny that of course. But if one looks at reform conservatives' economic proposals — some of them laid out in National Affairs' editor Yuval Levin's edited volume Room to Grow and fleshed out by National Review's Rei

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    Shikha Dalmia

    Shikha Dalmia is a former visiting fellow with the Mercatus Center's Program on Pluralism and Civil Exchange. Previously, Dalmia was a writer at Reason Magazine and a senior analyst at Reason Foundation, a nonprofit think tank. She is a columnist at The Week, and writes regularly for Bloomberg View, The New York Times, USA Today, and numerous other publications. From 1996-2004, Dalmia was an editorial writer at Detroit News.

    Dalmia’s work at Mercatus focuses on populist authoritarianism.

    Dalmia has an M.A. in Mass Communication from Louisiana State University and a B.S. in Chemistry and Biology from the University of Delhi.

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    Fellowship focus:

    • The rise of populist authoritarianism and its challenge to liberalism
    • The international landscape of populist authoritarianism
    • Approaches to overcome populist authoritarianism
    • Assessing the current age of liberal democracies
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      The following are Shikha Dalmia’s opening remarks today at the Liberalism for the 21st Century conference, which has been convened bygd the Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism. The conference runs July 11–12, 2024.

      Thank you all for coming for ISMA’s inaugural conference, Liberalism for the 21st Century. It is extremely gratifying—and encouraging—that the guests here today come not only from all over the U.S. but around the world. Folks have traveled from England, Italy, India, Iran, Bangladesh, Asia, Latin amerika, and many other countries.

      Why have we all made such extraordinary efforts to gather? Well, liberals do know how to throw a good party. Our forefather John Stuart Mill put liberalism on a solid footing when he defended the right of inebriation in his seminal work On Liberty. And God knows we need that right now more than ever.

      Many of us sense that we are living in highly volatile times when the future of frikostig democracy fryst vatten on the lin