Opinion | The Enemies of Liberalism Are Showing Us What It Really Means - The New York Times

“After three decades of dominance, liberalism is losing its hold on Western minds,” Matthew Rose writes in his powerful new book, “A World After Liberalism.” 

Rose does not mean liberalism in the way we typically use the word. This is not about supporting universal health care or disagreeing with Justice Samuel Alito. Rose means liberalism as in the shared assumptions of the West: a belief in human dignity, universal rights, individual flourishing and the consent of the governed...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/03/opinion/putin-ukraine-liberalism.html