Patrick Deneen On ‘Regime Change’ And The ‘Postliberal Future’
Federalist Radio Hour
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The Age of Entitlement
Is John Stuart Mill almost understood as the grandfather of postmodernism? Are we drawing a line from Mill to Nietzsche to Butler? Is that a fair sort of lineage? Interesting. I think you could say there's a kind of logic within Mill's argument in which the transgressive figure is always going to be given in some ways the place of kind of priority, right? He proposed to do this essentially by putting in place a ruling class that will restrain and restrict the many. The demos.
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