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Patrick Deneen Offers a Powerful Critique of Liberalism

Democracy Paradox

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The Democracy Paradox

Patrick Deneen: Liberalism has failed not because it fell short, but because it was true to itself. He says a liberal order seeks to lower or eliminate all barriers to the free use of my body or myself. In Hobbes and Locke, freedom is defined as the freedom to dispose of your person and your property as you see fit.

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