Liberalism Against Itself

Samuel Moyn and Omar Sadr discuss failures of Cold War liberalism and the challenges of contemporary liberalism.

Samuel Moyn is the Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University. Trained in modern European intellectual history, he works on political and legal thought in modern times and on constitutional and international law in historical and current perspective.

Readings

• Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times (Yale University Press, 2023)
• The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (Harvard University Press, 2010)