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Telos is pleased to offer a curated selection of open access articles that engage some of the most pressing political, cultural, and philosophical debates of our time. Spanning questions of liberalism’s decline, cultural identity, class conflict, civilizational pluralism, and the future of democracy, these essays exemplify Telos’s long-standing commitment to rigorous, independent critical theory.
Recent open access contributions interrogate the postliberal condition from multiple perspectives. Essays by Michael Lind and Adrian Pabst examine what comes after liberalism’s internal erosion, while Mark G. E. Kelly explores the tensions within liberal democracy through the lenses of biopolitics and autoimmunity. Joel Kotkin and Adam K. Webb analyze evolving class structures and meritocratic elites in a globalized order increasingly defined by inequality and resentment. |
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| Other articles address culture, identity, and ideology with historical depth and theoretical precision. Huimin Jin’s latest essay develops an ontology of cultural self-confidence and subjectivity within a Chinese cultural framework, while Hendrik Hansen compares left- and right-wing identity politics through their respective post-structuralist and ethnopluralist paradigms. Courtney Hodrick traces the ideological pathways from neoreactionary thought to the alt-right, offering a Schmittian analysis of contemporary political radicalism.
These open access offerings also reflect Telos’s sustained engagement with civilizational perspectives and global political thought. Contributions by Timothy Samuel Shah and C. Holland Taylor, Miles Yu, and Pierre-André Taguieff examine human rights traditions, civilizational crises, nationalism, and the global transformations of anti-racism and political discourse. Together, these essays challenge Western universalism while resisting intellectual conformism.
By making these articles freely available, Telos invites scholars, students, and intellectually curious readers to engage directly with ideas that resist simplification and orthodoxy. These open access texts offer a gateway into ongoing debates about power, culture, legitimacy, and the future of political life, debates that are now more urgent than ever. |
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Free to Read: Enjoy Open Access to Select Telos Essays
- Huimin Jin, “Cultural Self-Confidence (文化自信) and Cultural Subjectivity (文化主体性): An Ontology of Self and Subject,” Telos 213 (Winter 2025): 13–47
- Adrian Pabst, “The New Era: What Comes After the Self-Erosion of Liberalism,” Telos 212 (Fall 2025): 38–59
- Michael Lind, “After Liberalism,” Telos 212 (Fall 2025): 11–24
- Adam K. Webb: “‘Oriental Despotism,’ Meritocracy, and the Fate of the Global New Class,” Telos 211 (Summer 2025): 9–31
- Mark G. E. Kelly, “Liberal Democracy between Biopolitical Homeostasis and Autoimmunity,” Telos 209 (Winter 2024): 9–27
- Pierre-André Taguieff, “What Is Islamo-Leftism? Its Origins and Current Developments,” Telos 207 (Summer 2024): 141–52
- Joel Kotkin, “The New Class Conflict Gets Worse,” Telos 206 (Spring 2024): 35–53
- Mark Maguire and David A. Westbrook, “Anticipation, Social Theory, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves,” Telos 205 (Winter 2023): 41–61
- Hendrik Hansen, “Left-Wing and Right-Wing Identity Politics: A Comparison of the Post-structuralist Turn in Left-Wing Extremism with the Ethnopluralism and Nominalism of the New Right,” Telos 204 (Fall 2023): 11–50
- Timothy Samuel Shah and C. Holland Taylor, “‘Three Rights Traditions Walk into a Bar in Jakarta’: Inalienable Human Rights from the Perspective of Different Civilizations,” Telos 203 (Summer 2023): 78–98
- Miles Yu, “Escape from Civilizations Predicaments,” Telos 201 (Winter 2022): 51–61
- Mark G. E. Kelly, “The Paradoxical Academic Cultural Revolution: A Long March to a Capitalist Road,” Telos 200 (Fall 2022): 153–69
- Courtney Hodrick, “From Neoreaction to Alt-Right: A Schmittian Perspective,” Telos 198 (Spring 2022): 90–112
- Paul W. Kahn, “Law and Representation: Observations from an American Constitutionalist,” Telos 195 (Summer 2021): 11–32
- David A. Westbrook, “Social Capitalism: A Descriptive Sketch,” Telos 194 (Spring 2021): 27–43
- Pierre-André Taguieff, “Behind the Globalized ‘New Anti-Racism’: A Trivialized Anti-White Racism,” Telos 193 (Winter 2020): 36–44
- Pierre-André Taguieff, “Hucksters of the ‘Postcolonial Business’ in Search of Academic Respectability: Reflections on Contemporary Pseudo Anti-Racism in France,” Telos 193 (Winter 2020): 13–35
- Pierre-André Taguieff, “Beyond the Fears of the Pandemic: Reinventing the Nation-State?,” Telos 191 (Summer 2020): 69–90
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