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Patrick Deneen and Our Otherworldly Postliberal “Future”

Acton Unwind

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The Importance of Locke in the History of the United States

There is a liberal culture that exists in this country, it exists for a reason. To think that you can just replace John Locke with Polybius and he didn't change the entire cultural orientation of the society is bizarre and fantastical. There's not much about our actual system that is literally borrowed from Locke. The idea that somehow ideas are magic ... I mean, who was the king? He breaks his seal; now no one can make laws because the seal is broken but they'll make laws without the seal.

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