How to Use illiberalism in a Sentence

illiberalism

noun

• That is the path to illiberalism; there lies the road to fascism.
  — Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2023
• No such gesture could reverse the wave of illiberalism that has engulfed so much of the world.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2022
• In the context of growing illiberalism in Western countries as well, the news has been gloomy.
  — Tom Ball, The New Republic, 1 July 2019
• The illiberalism here lies with the law’s critics, who would deny the Jewish state the freedom to legislate like a normal country.
  — Eugene Kontorovich, WSJ, 19 July 2018
• Soros seems to have spent most of his life raging against illiberalism and dictatorship.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 24 May 2022
• The poisonous outpouring of antisemitism is a symptom of the illiberalism the Left has chosen to ignore.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 10 Nov. 2023
• After the armistice in Europe, illiberalism at home grew even worse, as if the violent spirit of war needed new feeding grounds.
  — George Packer, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2022
• The growth of illiberalism on the right has been fed, in large part, by the belief that progressives have already rendered liberalism a fiction.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 7 June 2020
• But more seriously, Mounk doesn’t describe the illiberalism on the left with any rigor.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 27 Oct. 2020
• In reality, China has strengthened the forces of illiberalism around the globe.
  — Hal Brands, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• The aftermath of the incident had made Murray a martyr for free speech, and Harris brought him on the show in part as a statement of disgust with the illiberalism that had greeted Murray on campus.
  — Ezra Klein, Vox, 27 Mar. 2018
• In political-science terms, illiberalism means something more radical: a challenge to the very rules of the game.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
• Orbán, the warrior of illiberalism, will continue his fight on the international scene; for him, there is no way back.
  — Zsuzsanna Szelényi, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2022
• Perhaps the coming age will feature populist illiberalisms of the left and right, with one side or the other essentially disenfranchised.
  — The Economist, 4 Dec. 2019
• In one version of the future, the assault on the Capitol marks the point at which the forces of illiberalism, mob violence and disinformation, much of it stoked and financed by the Russian government, reached critical mass in the West.
  — Star Tribune, 26 Jan. 2021
• None of this is to deny creeping illiberalism on the right or Trump's refusal to distinguish between the public interest and his personal ones.
  — W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 8 Apr. 2022
• If anything, the GOP has drifted even further toward extremism and illiberalism since the riot.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 30 Jan. 2021
• One possibility that has been much discussed is that it will be seen as the dawn of America’s descent into illiberalism.
  — Ezra Klein, Vox, 10 May 2018
• The US Democratic party has not shown a similar shift towards illiberalism, according to the study.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 26 Oct. 2020
• Wilner became obsessed with the case, the fundamental un-American nature of the prison, and the public’s compliance, if not outright support, for its illiberalism.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 6 July 2022
• Macron’s reelection, thanks in part to voters who sided with him only to thwart Le Pen, shows that a popular bulwark against such illiberalism still very much exists, no matter Le Pen’s steady electoral gains over the past decade.
  — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2022
• The new governing coalition is open in its extremism and illiberalism.
  — Emily Tamkin, The New Republic, 7 Mar. 2023
• If either of those things were happening, that would certainly be a big story, bolstering the narrative being pushed by those obsessed with illiberalism on the left.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 4 Mar. 2021
• Higher education has come under fire from one side for illiberalism, and from the other for injustice.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2024
• The other thing no one was talking about: Modi’s questionable human rights record and India’s slide into illiberalism.
  — Zoe Glasser, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
• Do not ask when this choice between liberalism and illiberalism will come to America.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 13 Apr. 2018
• Freedom of expression is threatened far more by tech monopolies and growing illiberalism in the academy than by Trump’s dumb jabs.
  — vanityfair.com, 18 Oct. 2017
• The tide of illiberalism rises, and our elite institutions are contributing to its dangerous surge.
  — David French, National Review, 1 July 2019
• The book is an expression of the old liberalism, supplanted by leftism and other flavors of illiberalism.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
• Roger Kimball took this stance in 1990 in Tenured Radicals, a screed against leftist illiberalism in higher education.
  — Aaron R. Hanlon, The New Republic, 11 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024