Patrick Deneen Offers a Powerful Critique of Liberalism
Democracy Paradox
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The Problem With Liberalism
The more free we become by this definition, the less capable we are to act together on behalf of something we might consider or craft as the common good. Any obstacle to my achievement of my liberty will now become a kind of existential crisis says Julian Zelizer. We've done it not because it's natural to us, but because it required a pretty massive kind of apparatus,. political, economic, social apparatus to make us free in the way that Hobbes and Locke described our freedom as by nature.
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