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The Stakes: Defending Leo Strauss ft. Michael Millerman

The American Mind

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The Negative Side of a Liberal Democracy

The danger that strauss saw was that liberal democracy just becomes institutional or a mechanism for providing freedom. And then, and then takes a kind of agnostic, stand off, detached position on what freedom is to be used for right? So a bad outcome is, yes, we all have freedom, but the we forget or deny claims of natural right," he says.

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