Time of Monsters: What Future for Liberalism?; Quarterly Essay 103
Waleed Aly
Do we still believe in progress? In this wonderfully clarifying essay, Waleed Aly examines what happened to liberalism. As a set of ideas, it offered equality and guaranteed freedoms. But more and more, we live in a post-liberal world.
Aly maps the new politics arising – both conservative and progressive – as mainstream politics loses its appeal. He examines the new battles over identity, injustice and speech, and discusses the way instability has become central to contemporary life. When did freedom start to feel so unfree?
This is a supple and original essay about the forces transforming our politics.
- Release
- Sep-2026
- ISBN
- 9781760645816
- RRP (AUD)
- $29.99
- Pages
- 112
- Format
- Paperback & ebook
- Category
- Centrist democratic ideologies
Waleed Aly
Waleed Aly is a writer, academic, lawyer and broadcaster. A lecturer in politics at Monash University, he is the author of People Like Us and Quarterly Essay 37, What’s Right? and Quarterly Essay 87, Uncivil Wars (with Scott Stephens). He co-hosts Radio National’s The Minefield program.
Black Inc.
Founded in 2000, Black Inc. is an independent Australian publisher of quality non-fiction and fiction books, based in Melbourne.
