Can We/Should We Save the "West"?
Classical Wisdom Speaks
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Is There a Virtue in Free Speech?
I wonder if that's sort of the same with our state that we need to have the aim of virtue in order to participate in it. Absolutely. I mean, something that I sort of a while back, found myself digging into is the history, not just of free speech discourse, but of kind of classical liberalism more generally. There's been a lot of argument lately that liberalism itself is kind of a disaster and we should scrap it all together. But I think that what's much nearer the truth is that we got to the point where we were capable of doing liberal things like personal liberties. We forgot that they're supported and upheld by this entire social structure which does involve shared cultural assumptions about
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