The Relationship Between Ends and Institutional Means

There's that tension of is our commitment as political liberals to the ends of individuals having the room to pursue their preferences and plans. Or is it to maintaining the institutions that we have said are representative of political liberalism? And how do we resolve the tension of those institutions can be broadly liberal but can then have significant problems that push in an illiberal direction, but robust critique of them can get read as this is a danger to the system itself?, he asks.

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