The Demise of Fusionism and the Rise of American Post-Liberalism
Other projects include a long-awaited book chapter on Post-Liberal Conservatism in the United States—entitled “The Demise of Fusionism and the Rise of American Post-Liberalism”—that details the constituent ideological trends of post-liberal conservatism and compares it to the key tenets of the late-19th and early 20th-century Progressive movement, and eventually concludes with an assessment of the special place of conservatism in a decidedly liberal polity, one whose only tradition is liberalism. While liberalism in its pure form is corrosive to the very things that sustain it in the first place—local communities, strong bonds, families, duties, obligations, and elites—and seeks to preserve a genuinely communal life that is vital and provides the tools and resources for human flourishing for those who choose to desire it. This, then, is the role of post-liberalism in a liberal country: to enrich and enliven it, to sustain it, and to act as a backstop for the sterilising, atomising effects of mass society and modern life.
Ishaan Jajodia, “The Demise of Fusionism and the Rise of American Post-Liberalism,” in The Post-Liberal Turn and The Future of Conservatism, ed. Daniel Pitt and Phllip Blond (Budapest, Hungary: Ludovika University Press, 2024).
Edmund Burke and Benjamin Disraeli
I have also published work on the constitutional thought of Edmund Burke and Benjamin Disraeli, where I argue at length for the importance of understanding and moulding national character before embarking on constitutional projects, and consequently that constitutions and the law is tethered to culture and cultural history in a way that seems to be ill-reflected in contemporary jurisprudence and history. My interest in Disraeli manifested itself in an edited and annotated volume of Disraeli’s writings, a project undertaken while I was an Independent Fellow at Dartmouth College’s Political Economy Project.
Ishaan Jajodia, “Artefacts of Culture: The Constitutional Theories of Edmund Burke and Benjamin Disraeli,” Cosmos + Taxis 11, no. 5+6 (2023): 69–81.