Exploring the critiques of liberalism and its relation to religious faith and free speech, with emphasis on the structural similarities between progressives who reject free speech and post-liberals who impose religious beliefs on society.
Yascha Mounk and Martha Nussbaum discuss how to reflect on a life lived well.
Martha Nussbaum is a philosopher and the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Nussbaum is the author of many books, including, most recently, Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Martha Nussbaum discuss the need for an overlapping consensus between citizens of profoundly different beliefs; how regarding animals as sentient beings might change our behavior towards them; and why one ought to be a “happy warrior” for moral causes.