Yuval Levin on Burke, Paine, and the Great Debate
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The Dangers of Individualism
The most important things about society are what we see in that space between the individual and the state. Payne made an argument that a lot of progressives today make, which is that what happens in that space is actually illegitimate. And not only that, but they often provide shelter for certain attitudes and prejudices that don't belong in a free society. "I think that that's a concern that libertarians should be alert to," he says.
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