# The need for muscular liberalism

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Podcast: [The EI Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386)
Published: 2026-03-26T11:34:30+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8879061
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## Resource

Adrian Wooldridge speaks to EI’s Paul Lay about his new book, Centrists of the World Unite! The Lost Genius of Liberalism . He believes that the West can only overcome its current malaise by rediscovering and reviving the liberal tradition. Image: Engraving of the frontispiece from Thomas Hobbes’s ‘Leviathan’ (1651). Credit: Alamy

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