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Rethinking the "end of history"

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Liberalism and the Politics of Education

Liberalism has to answer for that failure as well those failures o i think that's right. And a lot of the unhappiness was actually over educated people looking down on people that didn't have their level of education and blaming them for things that really weren't their fault, like being racist and nativist and so forth. I see political life as a struggle to live in this tension between inertia in progress and radical change. But one of the things tat gives me some hope is that we have come out of previous cycles like this. You know, the 19 thirties was pretty bad in terms of illiberal, very radically illiberal views,. And the world managed to survive that and

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