Liberalism has, in effect, to be implanted by law, and will have to displace certain other modes of activity. I'm just saying knowing that nothing is immune from imperfection, a from problems, from errors. And we have to be aware of that and think about the seeds of destruction a within something good like liberalism,. Like modern technology, and try and account for it. It's not inevitable. We can walk away from it if we choose to. But i think one question is, what does Liberalism depend on? The person with an infinite longing With a need for transcendence - so much as liberals want us to know our own self-mastery. Also working through
Richard Reinsch, editor of Law and Liberty and the host of the podcast Liberty Law Talk, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Enlightenment. Topics discussed include the search for meaning, the stability of liberalism, the rise of populism, and Solzhenitsyn's indictment of Western values from his Harvard Commencement Address of 1978.