I'm Not as Alarmed by What You Write About as the Potential Anbironmental Consequences

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The liberal project is fundamentally the argument that nature is an obstacle and a limitation of our liberty. And i'm not as alarmed by what you write about as the potential anbironmental consequences, although there's obviously uncertainty about that. Ah, but i was struck when reading about this, the parallels, to a the master is emissary recent gaston kontaki and mgilcrist who sees the world with a different lens. He's got the left side of the brain very focused, very a concrete, very overconfident, very isolated. The right side of thebrain is how we interact in a world where we have to live with other people, or we have to

Political Scientist and author Patrick Deneen of the University of Notre Dame talks about his book Why Liberalism Failed with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. By liberalism, Deneen means the modern enterprise--the push for self-actualization free of the constraints of tradition, family, and religion that typifies modern culture. He argues that both the left and the right have empowered the state and reduced liberty. He argues for a smaller, more local, more artisanal economy and a return to the virtues of self-control and self-mastery.