Post-Liberalism’s Fade with Nicolas Villarreal
About this episode
The episode discusses the transition from post-liberal promises to a Bonapartist reality in politics.
Politics keeps offering us drama in place of design. We sat down with Nicholas D. Vairo to chart how the post-liberal moment slid from grand promises into a Bonapartist reality: a leader-first spectacle with no plan to build or maintain the institutions that make a society work. The core insight isn’t just about ideology; it’s about capacity. Professional elites still run what functions, for better and worse, because no competing class has figured out how to reproduce competence at scale. We...
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