Has liberalism stopped working? Waleed Aly on a world of 'monsters'

Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald · Oct 30, 2026 · 29m

Populists are rising. Traditional parties are struggling. Trust in institutions is falling.

So what if these aren't separate crises at all?

In this special live edition of Global Roaming, taken from Hamish Macdonald and Waleed Aly's conversation for Roaring Stories at Balmain's Red Mill Distillery, the two sit down to discuss Waleed's Quarterly Essay entitled Time of Monsters: What Future for Liberalism?

Waleed argues that many of the political movements reshaping the world, from Trumpism and nationalist conservatism to parts of the progressive left, are reacting against the same underlying…