The Conservative Celebration of the New Deal

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LZ Granderson: The role of arbitration court, certainly I imagine, is much greater today than it would have been 25 or 50 or 100 years ago. In the late 19th century, you had all of the different kinds of ways in which the railroad bosses and others were in charge of American economic life," he says. "I argue have brought us back to the pre-reform pre-New Deal" LZ: How worried should we be about the overall challenges facing American workers? And how bad is this at this moment in American history relative to other periods?

Sohrab Ahmari is a writer, commentator, and the founding editor of Compact. He is the author of Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty–and What to Do About It.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Sohrab Ahmari discuss the threat corporate power poses to individual freedom in the United States; whether liberalism has gone too far in prioritizing individual autonomy over the common good; and why they disagree about whether attempting to move beyond liberalism would make things better or worse.

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