Keep Calm and Carry On? A Japanese Perspective on A Post-Liberal World
... philosophy from the crisis of liberal elites. A few centuries ago, Japanese samurais understood the crisis of the Christian world order not very much as the crisis of Christianity, but more accurately as the crisis of occidental Christian elites. Today, Japanese leaders understand the crisis of the liberal world order not very much as the crisis of liberalism, but more accurately as the crisis of Western liberal elites. The problem may not be liberalism per sei , but instead the quasi-religious zeal of contemporary Western liberals who want to paint everything in the color of liberalism. A similar ...