Debating Postliberalism with Adrian Pabst, Michael Lind, and John Milbank

In today’s episode of the Telos Press Podcast, Adrian Pabst talks with Michael Lind and John Milbank about postliberalism, the topic of the current issue of Telos, “Debating Postliberalism.” Adrian Pabst’s “The New Era: What Comes After the Self-Erosion of Liberalism,” Michael Lind’s “After Liberalism,” and John Milbank’s “The Politics of Virtue” all appear in the issue. We have made the articles by Pabst and Lind available as open access publications, and they can be read for free at our website. To purchase a copy of the issue or to subscribe to Telos, visit our online store.

Telos 212 (Fall 2025): Debating Postliberalism

What’s Next in the Age of Trump?

“What many critics as well as defenders of liberalism tend to overlook is the possibility that liberalism—in the economy, in politics, and in culture—will prove to be unstable and self-liquidating.”
—Michael Lind, “After Liberalism”

Liberalism’s triumph was short-lived. The optimism of the post–Cold War era has given way to polarization, populism, Brexit, and Trumpism. Across the world, thinkers are asking: what comes after liberalism?

In Telos 212: Debating Postliberalism, leading scholars explore how liberalism’s promises unraveled—and whether postliberalism offers renewal or merely another ideology.

We have made the articles by Michael Lind and Adrian Pabst available as open access publications. Read them for free at our website.

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Telos 212 (Fall 2025): Debating Postliberalism

Introduction
Adrian Pabst

After Liberalism (open access)
Michael Lind

The Politics of Virtue
John Milbank

The New Era: What Comes After the Self-Erosion of Liberalism (open access)
Adrian Pabst

Postliberalism: A Genealogy
Jacob Williams and João Pinheiro da Silva

Losing Streeck: Echoes of Left Anti-Imperialism in Postliberal Discourse
Gabriel Noah Brahm and Julius Bielek

Conservative Revolution Today: Postliberalism and Common Good
Daniil Koloskov

Notes and Commentary

What Is the Point of Theory?
Paul W. Kahn

Reviews

Postliberalism and the Realization of the Common Good
Stefan Borg

Reasonableness and the Idea of the Good in a Time of Crisis
Gaelan Murphy

Byung-Chul Han’s Political Turn
Robert Wyllie and Steven Knepper

After the Open Society
Gabriel Noah Brahm

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