illiberalism

[i-lib-er-uhl-iz-uhm, i-lib-ruhl-]

noun

1. adherence to social or political values that are counter to those of liberalism.

2. attitudes or policies that are narrow-minded, authoritarian, or intolerant.

Example Sentences

But there is a better path for the world’s democracies than cozying up to China, Russia, and the authoritarian bloc or blithely accepting America’s illiberalism.

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Part of her mission at the Tiffany Network will be to tackle “illiberalism emanating from our fringes.”

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What does the data and other evidence tell us about the rise of autocracy and authoritarian populism and forms of illiberalism around the world?

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Instead, in order to sanitize the creeping sense of illiberalism, conservatives wield their favorite cudgel: the year of 2020, in which a great deal of upheaval tilted the leverage of social justice toward the left, and—ever so briefly—rewrote the rules.

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Or the Atlantic’s Thomas Chatterton Williams, who just published a book about the illiberalism of Black Lives Matter.

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