Contemporary Debates and Mario Vargos Llosa.

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Mario Vargas Llosa opinions on the issues related to 'liberals', 'nationalism', 'populism', 'greatest challenge to Democracy', 'intellectual honesty', 'literature and morality', political correctness and freedom', and 'technology' To show his review regarding these topic click here.

Mario Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist and college professor. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading writers of his generation seven influential authors: Adam Smith, José Ortega y Gasset, Friedrich von Hayek, Karl Popper, Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin and Jean-François Revel. His book” The Call of the Tribe” is also an intellectual autobiography that takes the reader from Vargas Lllosa’s Marxist and existentialist beginnings through to his endorsement of liberalism.

Libralism:

Liberalism is the ideology of governmental, cultural, and economic liberty and equality that generally comes in classical, social, and economic forms. Liberalism comes in many forms, all of which are generally considered “left-wing.” Its opposition philosophy is conservatism. It has been targeted by ideologies that are enemies of freedom and which justifiably consider liberalism to be their most tenacious adversary.

Nationalism:

Nationalism is a political, social, and economic system characterized by promoting the interests of a particular nation or ethnic group, particularly with the aim of gaining and maintaining self-governance, or full sovereignty, over the group's homeland. Libralist was reject Nationalism because it is incompatible with freedom. At one lavel nationalism involve racism. And racism inevitably leads to violence and the suppression of freedom. 

Intellectual honesty is an applied method of problem solving. characterized by an unbiased, honest attitude, which can be demonstrated in a number of different ways like,

One's personal faith does not interfere with the pursuit of truth,

·  Relevant facts and information are not purposefully omitted even when such things may contradict one's hypothesis; 

Political correctness is the enemy of freedom because it rejects honesty and authenticity. We have to tackle it as the distortion of the truth.