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Patrick Deneen Offers a Powerful Critique of Liberalism

Democracy Paradox

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The Importance of Citizenship in Democracy

David Frum: We're not born with the ability to govern, which I think is the kind of liberal assumption. He says we have a tendency to do exactly what those early critics of the Constitution feared - thinking of ourselves in highly-privatistic terms. Frum: Liberalism has hollowed out public sphere and in its place develop us without our even awareness of it.

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