Liberalism not neo-liberalism: comment on Will Kymlicka's article "Solidarity in diverse societies"

Will Kymlicka has been an admirably staunch defender of multiculturalism over the years, despite the tendency of many fellow scholars to echo politicians such as Angela Merkel and David Cameron in pronouncing the end of this progressive philosophy (Joppke & Morawska, 2003). He has also done much to tackle the pernicious idea, linked to this and propogated by scholars such as Robert Putnam, that immigrant diversity is damaging for solidarity (Putnam, 2007). Here, in these brief comments, I would like to question what kind of “liberal” he is