LZ Granderson: I think we live long, we live healthy. Most of live at a stair to living at's unimagined even 50 years ago. Enormous swaths of people are doing that across the world. LZ: No one on his death bed wished you spent more time at the officeand i agree with you there. But i would add, ah, you know, thoreau, writing a long time ago, said, the mass of men lived lives o quiet desperation. And i'm not sure i's any more desperation.
Political Scientist and author Patrick Deneen of the University of Notre Dame talks about his book Why Liberalism Failed with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. By liberalism, Deneen means the modern enterprise--the push for self-actualization free of the constraints of tradition, family, and religion that typifies modern culture. He argues that both the left and the right have empowered the state and reduced liberty. He argues for a smaller, more local, more artisanal economy and a return to the virtues of self-control and self-mastery.