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Jacob Levy — Does a Liberal Society Need to be Democratic?

The Curious Task

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The Contemporary Crisis of Political Libertarianism

In your essay political libertarianism, you said that a lack of proper libertarian or classical liberal politics leaves those who are proponents of liberalism ill equipped to deal with threats against it anyway. I think the ongoing fantasy of writing libertarian policy conclusions into a politic has tended to aline libertarians with political forces that imagine politics as a kind of once and for all victory over the whole of the people. So that that's a thought about where we are in consitutional dema democracies right now.

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