We live in a postliberal age. We speak with foreboding of the rise of illiberal democracy, techno-feudalism, oligarchy, broligarchy, and fascism. At the same time, we envision a variety of post-liberal utopias: posthumanism, horizontal communities, a postnational order, the end of the state. Whatever is happening, and it may well be all, some, or none of these things, depending on your economic, ethnic, geographical, national, and social positionality, we are no longer living in the world that brought forth the great liberal revolutions of the nineteenth century, the rise of neoliberalism in the thought and politics of Hayek, Friedman, Thatcher and Reagan, or the short-lived triumphalism of Francis Fukuyama and the rise of neoconservatism at the turn of the millennium. How then do we theorize the present cultural moment? What role do humanities and thought itself play in the world of artificial intelligence and rising authoritarianism? How do we understand power? What is the role of the subject? What is the role of class? What is the role of the nation? Does the liberal conception of individual freedom still have purchase and appeal?

Focus Editors: Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Paul Allen Miller

Deadline for submissions: July 1, 2026. Learn more about the submissions process.