Sohrab Ahmari on Post-Liberalism
The Good Fight
The American Tradition of the Common Good
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.
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