The Institute for Humane Studies invites you to join us for a conversation with Joshua L. Cherniss, associate professor of government at Georgetown University, about his new book Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century (Princeton University Press, 2021) on Friday, April 29, from 12:00 to 12:45 p.m. ET.
As liberalism faces threats from across the political spectrum, Cherniss offers a compelling new assessment of a handful of writers who defended liberalism during the dark days of the early twentieth century when democracy was under attack around the world. Building on the work of Max Weber, Raymond Aron, Albert Camus, Reinhold Neibuhr, and Isaiah Berlin, Cherniss persuasively argues for the continuing importance of a liberal ethos. Kevin Mattson, author of When America was Great: The Fighting Faith of Liberalism in Postwar America, calls Cherniss’s book “A remarkably well-developed case for a ‘tempered liberalism.’”
IHS Senior Program Officer Brad Jackson will host the conversation on April 29, which will take place on Zoom and will be followed by a Q&A.
