Unmasking Liberalism

Myths are common features in the landscape of life. At their best, myths fuel our imaginations and illuminate our path, connecting us to enduring truths. But myths can also conceal hazards to our well-being, causing us to lose our way and taking us where we do not wish to go.

So it is with modern liberalism and the secular-progressive program for the good society. Professed ideals of autonomy, equality, rights, and liberty sound principled and appealing, but the realities of implementation are instead leading us toward an authoritarian future that is the antithesis of human flourishing.

In The Myth of Liberalism, Dr. John Safranek dismantles the ideological house of liberalism and reveals its crumbling foundations. In the process, he also exposes some of the particular projects of modern progressive politics, including abortion, sexual expression, and assisted suicide, as preferences of elites rather than the product of neutral principles. As a physician and a philosopher, he blends a deeply lived knowledge of humanity with a sober and reasoned assessment of the inability of the progressive ideology to yield the goods it promises. He also explores the hopeful possibilities of using the values and processes of pre-modern philosophy rooted in the Greeks, but continued in subsequent generations by Thomas Aquinas and others, a foundation for a more sustainable and effective program.

An assessment of modern liberalism should begin with some definitions.

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