Centrists of the World Unite!

Ambitious ... Wooldridge [is] the Bagehot of our day. His narrative is persuasive, his diagnosis of the malaise of the Western elites is fresh and he offers convincing reasons for believing that "the lost genius of liberalism" will make a comeback. ... [He] wants to rid liberals of their taste for extremism, to persuade them to take populism seriously and take the fight to the autocrats. He denies that liberalism is shallow or banal, as its critics from Carlyle to Houellebecq have scoffed. He has done an outstanding job of making a fresh, compelling case for liberalism

Daniel Johnson, Critic

Wooldridge ... is what you might call a muscular Whig, someone who believes in the idea of progress and liberal democracy as our best shot at human flourishing

Josh Glancy, Sunday Times

In Centrists of the World Unite, Adrian Wooldridge carefully locates a crisis both within and without liberalism. [His] approach is refreshing ... [the book is] entertaining, eerie, and [provides] a piercing look at where societies and economies find themselves — which is, ultimately, quite a mess. There is no doubt that liberalism has found itself at a crossroads ... this [book] enables us to think about how it can recover

Samuel Mace, Critic