Re: flagged status, I presume this submission was flagged for seeming "political". However, the concern, as I understand it, is over articles that are not so mu

Re: flagged status, I presume this submission was flagged for seeming "political". However, the concern, as I understand it, is over articles that are not so much "political" (many of those are never flagged), but rather blatantly "partisan" or "factional" (which can go unflagged as well). "Liberalism" here refers to something much deeper than partisan squabbling. It is a political philosophy having its most prominent origins in Locke, and a worldview that underpins Western democracies. As the article notes, both prominent American parties are in fact liberal parties in this sense. The question being addressed isn't "is the Democratic party finished?", but rather whether the liberal worldview and the liberal order is playing out its own demise. There are tensions deep within liberalism, e.g., between science and liberty, that we see manifest across the American political spectrum. Many of the issues raised in many submissions are grounded in a tacit and particular variation of liberalism. This article addresses the much more fundamental question whether liberalism as a whole, not a particular variation of it, has failed.