The Political Sin Is Not Living Like That

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Your personal life is objectivly different from that of most people in our broadlyas of litical and intellectual circle. Having kids probably about a decade earlier than most people would, and so on. And i think that time disparity causes quite a bit of stress for a number of reasons. For one thing, you know, there are all these impending issues. There's this long standing ment about preaching what you practise among the professional managerial class. But when i look at what the atindesedvers confence are actually doing in their lives, they are mostly married by unstable relationships. Theyre away from their families, but nobody does thet evere has wanted to have drinks, and

Elizabeth Bruenig is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a Catholic socialist who writes on topics as varied as capital punishment and mothering two children while in her twenties. Her work is uniquely marked by her ruby-red Texas upbringing, the elite professional world she now inhabits, and her deep sense of morality, which draws from both Christian theology and left-wing politics.

In a wide-ranging conversation, Elizabeth Bruenig and Yascha Mounk debate the importance of dialogue across moral perspectives, whether wokeness bears any resemblance to theology, and how religious conviction can give rise to an authentically liberal defense of free speech.

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