The word liberalism is so indeterminate now in its meaning. It's used by so many people in so many different ways to mean so many different things i've always thought of myself as a conservative, not a liberal. But my views haven't changed on these issues since i first published the 19 93,. When my book, making men moral was regarded as a fulbore attack on liberalism. So i don't know. Am i a liberal? I can't tell. One minute hen they call me a conservative. The next minute they call meliberal. Bu i spos that te lis, you strong believe in civil liberties, includingfree and obviously a believer in what you may
Robert P. George is an American legal scholar and political philosopher. The McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, George is considered one of the foremost conservative intellectuals in America, and advocates a theory of natural law consistent with Catholic belief. With Cornel West, he authored a statement on “Truth Seeking, Democracy, and Freedom of Thought and Expression.”
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Robert P. George discuss the political philosophy of John Rawls, why democratic republics can’t function without free speech, and what relevance the first principles of conservatism do or don't retain today.
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