The need for muscular liberalism

Adrian Wooldridge speaks to EI’s Paul Lay about his new book, ‘Centrists of the World Unite: The Lost Genius of Liberalism’. He believes that the West can only overcome its current malaise by rediscovering and reviving the liberal tradition.

Image: Engraving of the frontispiece from Thomas Hobbes’s ‘Leviathan’ (1651). Credit: Alamy