Last date for submission of paper: unknown; Contact person: unknown; Raymond Aron is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the intellectual history of twentieth-century liberalism. Yet his status in the history of liberal thought has been more often proclaimed than explained. In this talk on his recent book, Raymond Aron and Liberal Thought in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Iain Stewart will address a number of under-studied questions about Aron