The goal of liberal societies is to maximize human autonomy, he says. But that's not how most people in the liberal tradition would formulate it, Obama adds. "We want to create a society where they can be true to themselves"
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.