This article presents a critical analysis of the essay Against the Liberals by the Swiss-German publicist Armin Mohler (Russian translation, 2024). The author analyses Mohler’s distinctive “poetic”, figurative and metaphorical style, noting its fundamental inconsistency and rejection of rigorous argumentation. It is demonstrated that the essay’s central thesis – a critique of “liberals” whilst professing no objections to liberal values – contains an irresolvable logical contradiction regarding the very object of the critique. Mohler’s key accusations (the creation of a “society of liars”, “rationality mania”, the unenforceability of the German Constitutional Law, etc.) are examined and systematically compared with the tenets of the classics of liberal thought – J. S. Mill, K. Jaspers and F. Hayek – which demonstrates the essayist’s actual ignorance of liberal doctrine, whilst also revealing a number of gross errors (in particular, the characterization of the Soviet Constitution as “one of the most liberal in the world”, the accusation of the liberals of an alleged mania for omniscience, the aspiration for expropriation, etc.). A. Mohler ascribes to liberalism, albeit without explicitly attributing them to specific authors, certain conceptions of the individual, that F. Hayek, 45 years prior, described as “the most misguided of common misconceptions about this doctrine”. Ultimately, given the avowed absence (and de facto presence) of Mohler’s criticisms of liberal values, it would be more appropriate to title his essay Against Liberalism and Its Principles.