The Role of Sundays in the Liberal Tradition

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I think that your point about laws establishing one day a week as a day of rest is an interesting one, but I think again you're sort of doing this rhetorical trick. But if you actually look at American practice, it runs against the idea of maximal autonomy in this case. That strikes me as just a very strange reading of the breadth of a liberal tradition because when I look at a lot of European countries, they have laws mandating that many shops be closed on Sundays.

Sohrab Ahmari is a writer, commentator, and the founding editor of Compact. He is the author of Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty–and What to Do About It.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Sohrab Ahmari discuss the threat corporate power poses to individual freedom in the United States; whether liberalism has gone too far in prioritizing individual autonomy over the common good; and why they disagree about whether attempting to move beyond liberalism would make things better or worse.

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