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Ep 186: What Have We Done With Our Independence?

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Is Ideology Contingent?

A social science vocabulary has ating narrowed our horizons of politics, i think. The key to a political thinker is trying to figure out what do they fear most, right? Andadatevar politic politics operates at a deeply psychological level and that's a fear about the world. We just don't ask these questions where we got our wealth from, right? Or secondry, i think you nave. Particularly the nineteenth century, the fear of equality was the fear of conformity, right? Nd wen, that's the fear that runs through miller and toquil and so fort. That actually goes back to plato in some ways write James Madison. It will unleash

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