E.T. and His Boundless Orks
The Ricochet Podcast
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Why the Realism Fail, the Liberalism Succeeds
Nick Gillespie: Tocqueville's warning that democracy can spin out of control is relevant to our time. He says both sides of the liberal tradition have gotten the answer wrong on this issue. In a new book, he argues that liberalism fails because it succeeds by overcoming its own limitations. The author also calls himself "a heterodox thinker" who believes in using Machiavellian means for Aristotelian ends.
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