The American Tradition of the Common Good

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In the American founding, and more importantly for me is not necessarily the founding, you have the common good reasserting itself in various forms. I think this strengthens the idea that human beings yearn for the common good over and against the sort of pure liberal theory which seems as much as possible to really shrink the common good to a point of deep privatization. But there's a point where in my perception you're in danger of inadvertently playing a kind of conjuring trick," he says.

Sohrab Ahmari is a writer, commentator, and the founding editor of Compact. He is the author of Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty–and What to Do About It.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Sohrab Ahmari discuss the threat corporate power poses to individual freedom in the United States; whether liberalism has gone too far in prioritizing individual autonomy over the common good; and why they disagree about whether attempting to move beyond liberalism would make things better or worse.

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