postliberal

• post-liberal

From post- +‎ liberal.

postliberal (not comparable)

1. (politics) After the introduction of liberalism; following or opposing liberalism; antiliberal.

   Near-synonym: neo-reactionary

   Antonym: preliberal

   • 2018, Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed, New Haven: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 184:

     But if we hope to create a humane postliberal future, we cannot pretend that the age of liberalism did not happen or that its basic contours can simply be jettisoned in some sort of restoration of an idyllic preliberal age.

   • 2023 June 7, Jennifer Szalai, “When ‘Regime Change’ Means Returning America to an Idealized Past”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     He [Patrick Deneen] also offers a vague reassurance that the postliberal future will not revive the prejudice and bigotry of the past.

   • 2024 November 1, Ross Douthat, “Who Abandoned Liberalism First, the Populists or the Establishment?”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     The essence of the initial postliberal movement, in Pinkoski’s view, is the abandonment of the “essential tenet of liberalism: the state-society, public-private distinction,” in favor of a model of politics in which the state acts in a concert with an ever-widening array of nongovernmental partners, […] .

2. (theology) Relating to postliberal theology.

postliberal (plural postliberals)

1. A proponent of postliberalism.
   • 2023 June 7, Jennifer Szalai, “When ‘Regime Change’ Means Returning America to an Idealized Past”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN:

     He [Patrick Deneen] calls on postliberals to aim big, “embracing, fostering and protecting not only the nation but that which is both smaller and larger than the nation.”