What's Wrong With Modernitis?

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The rise of mad ity and the rise of liberalism, as you define it, have cut those restraints on authority. What's wrong with modernitis? A destruction of those sources of authority in the at that many people to day see as repressive or a confining. I guess the most surprising thing about your formulation is that your members of your audience think this is largely a good thing.

Political Scientist and author Patrick Deneen of the University of Notre Dame talks about his book Why Liberalism Failed with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. By liberalism, Deneen means the modern enterprise--the push for self-actualization free of the constraints of tradition, family, and religion that typifies modern culture. He argues that both the left and the right have empowered the state and reduced liberty. He argues for a smaller, more local, more artisanal economy and a return to the virtues of self-control and self-mastery.