The Crisis of Liberalism - Dundurn

The Crisis of Liberalism

The Origin and Destiny of Freedom

Available Mar 10th 2026

Paperback
$ 25.99

Description

The Cold War struggle against Soviet communism is over, but a new conflict — one within liberal democracy itself — has taken its place.

Contemporary liberalism is in a bad way. But most advanced thinkers misdiagnose the problem. Few can see that liberalism, like any other ideology, suffers from tensions and contradictions, which threaten it from within.

Malign actors attack liberalism from outside. But they do damage only by exploiting what is essentially a liberal civil war — a conflict of antithetical freedoms and individualities. A large part of the problem is that the origin of liberalism and the main assumptions about human freedom that nourished it have been obscured or forgotten.

In The Crisis of Liberalism, Michael R.J. Bonner proposes that a renewed understanding of freedom, and its philosophical and theological foundations, can point the way out of the present mess.

Contributors

Michael R.J. Bonner

Michael R.J. Bonner is a communications and public policy advisor, and a historian with a PhD from the University of Oxford. He lives in Port Perry, Ontario.

Book Details

Paperback
March 2026
5.5x8.5 in
168 pp
9781459756212
ePub
March 2026
-
168 pp
9781459756229
ePub
March 2026
-
168 pp
9781459756236