Liberal modernity is a tyrant, and Grant remains the champion of a good, beautiful, and better life.
"It is no accident that Patrick Deneen, the American author of Why Liberalism Failed, and perhaps the most influential postliberal theorist of our time, has written in appreciation of George Grant.
In Why Liberalism Failed, Deneen asserts that “liberalism’s success today is most visible in the gathering signs of its failure”. He rightly points to how radical individualism demands ever more statism to guarantee new rights and entitlements, and how a regime’s anthropology shapes its technology. It is a perfect companion to Grant’s writings contained in Technology & Justice.
Grant argued that liberal norms built the political technology that shapes our social technology, and that we decided first to be the kind of people who live by choice without obligation. That decision was buttressed with new devices and authorities that urge us to forget that we ever owed something to anyone or anything at all."