Monthly Archives: July 2016

The UK constitutional crisis: the death of liberal democracy

Posted on July 20, 2016 by lawrence serewicz

The United Kingdom faces a constitutional crisis created by the vote to leave the EU. The referendum outcome had many causes. For some, a quasi-Marxist view explains the outcome as caused by the recent financial crisis and the austerity that … Continue reading →

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Strauss, Weimar and the Crisis of the UK liberal democracy

Posted on July 10, 2016 by lawrence serewicz

Last night I sat down with Strauss’s Liberalism Ancient and Modern to read the chapter on Spinoza (Preface to Spinoza’s Critique of Religion).[1] I did this to improve my understanding of Strauss’s approach to the tension between reason and revelation … Continue reading →

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