liberalism

LIBERALISM: Globally and in the West, liberalism is on the retreat. In the West, liberalism has been replaced by an intolerant hyperliberalism, where citizens have problems living side by side with those who think differently.

MEDIA: Surveys show that more than half of Germany's population believe they are receiving fake news. In France, 80 percent think the same.

FREEDOM: 'University' was a code word for prison, completing the exam meant serving a prison sentence. Albania's transformation was thorny. On the altar of freedom, factories went bankrupt, jobs disappeared, thousands fled to Italy on overcrowded ships.

USA: We've talking to John Ikenberry about 'after victory moments'. Is there any real incentive for the powerful state to spend money to rebuild and foster better order? The liberal international vision is not globalism, it is intergovernmentalism.

POLICY: The philosopher Espen Hammer gives a crystal clear analysis of US policy in a new book. This is a country where the annual value of lobbying is estimated at well over NOK 40 billion.

POLICY: In the USA, the annual value of lobbying activities is estimated at well over NOK 40 billion.

LIFE: How can we manage to live a meaningful life in a world without work, where everything is automated and education no longer leads to work?

RIGHT EXTREMISM: The novelist and essayist Pankaj Mishra is on his way to Oslo. For this reason comes his global boxing success in the Norwegian pocket edition. Welcome to an inspiring, provocative and at times frustrating book.

paternalism: Sunstein advocates active social manipulation to help us make smarter choices. In the book On Freedom, he questions whether free choice actually promotes human welfare.

Totalitarianism? The anarcho-communist critic Franco Berardi believes we have overestimated reason and intelligence as a world-changing force.

Weekly magazine The Economist marked 15. September's 175 anniversary with a manifesto against weakened liberal values.

ORIENTERING OCTOBER 1968: Hans Skjervheim's new book The Liberal Dilemma and other essays deserves a certain prevalence for obvious political reasons. Some will receive it with insults, accompany it with choirs, and bury it with a parable or a political sketch. Others will declare it well-known, label it as past, passé and thus confirm its criticism. Some will think that it is precisely for this reason that it is a very useful book, writes Øyvind Østerud in his review, among other things.

American identity politicians have no strategy and want none. They just want to express themselves and increasingly radicalize themselves.

Rok Bicek's documentary explores the growing expectations of the family, under the pressure of liberal capitalism.

Above all, it is we who do not blame liberalism for everything that is wrong here in the world, which should dwell on this book. 

Asle Toje's newly published book defends conservative values ​​over liberalism and leads a moderate defense of the nation state.