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Foundations of Classical Liberalism

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The Subversive Currents of the Enlightenment

There are other philosophers because the enlightenment is 70 or 80 years of intellectual and cultural life. There's Rousseau, for instance, who has a tremendous influence in a basically anti-liberal direction. I try to avoid psychosomeres in presenting history, attacking somebody on the basis of a scooter of life, let's say. But I do make exceptions to that, two major exceptions, which I think are perfectly justified. One is Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the other, of course, is Woodrow Wilson.

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