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ABSTRACT
Vallier offers a defence of liberalism that is publicly justified as an answer to political polarization. This critique argues that the philosophical solution he offers – a version of liberalism more likely to be endorsed by moderately idealized agents – may not succeed because the source of polarization lies elsewhere: in resentments arising out of changed social conditions and the alienation of parts of society unhappy with the very liberal narrative in question.
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Chandran Kukathas
Chandran Kukathas is Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Singapore Management University, where he holds the Lee Kong Chian Chair of Political Science. His research interests include the thought of F.A. Hayek, multiculturalism, and conceptions of capitalism. He is the author of The Liberal Archipelago (2003) and Immigration and Freedom (2021).