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Empires Without Imperialism with Jeanne Morefield

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What Liberalism Doesn't Do, I'd Argue, Is Deflect

i was asked to debate at the cambridge union. The proposition was liberal this house believes that liberalism has failed us. And so i went through, and i gave through all these examples. There's deflection by, you know, don't look over here. So don't look at that drum strike. Look at human rights convention. Then there's this thing that they do where it's a, ok, yes, invading other people's governments,. But in the long run, liberals have been really good about this stuff. If not us, if not us, then who what? You want china, or you want burney, or you Want trump.

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