The Invisible Doctrine, by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison. 4hr audiobook, concise text.
If by "classical liberal" you mean "laissez-nous faire", this might be easier to be open to reading. If you mean Hayek's now-maligned term "neoliberalism", and you're still trying to find a way to justify that well-meaning (as a reaction to nazism) but flawed approach (the need for bailouts, for one, and the Hobbsian "competition all the way down" lens), this may rub you wrong.
Of the two, I'd lean into history, and go way back, like 50kya.
We need a new story to guide us, other than the time-tested authoritarianism/fascism, and I like a messy mix generally guided by "public luxury, private sufficiency."
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The Invisible Doctrine, by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison. 4hr audiobook, concise text. If by "classical liberal" you mean "laissez-nous faire", this might be easier to be open to reading. If you mean Hayek's now-maligned term "neoliberalism", and you're still trying to find a way to justify that well-meaning (as a reaction to nazism) but flawed approach (the need for bailouts, for one, and the Hobbsian "competition all the way down" lens), this may rub you wrong.
Of the two, I'd lean into history, and go way back, like 50kya.
We need a new story to guide us, other than the time-tested authoritarianism/fascism, and I like a messy mix generally guided by "public luxury, private sufficiency."