i have changed my mind about the virtues and importance of patriotism over the course of the last decades. The very worst people were able to use the powerful symbolism of a nation when the best and most aspirational kinds of people retreated from that ground. I changed my mind because i'm seeing how powerful a moderatof patriotism can be for people in ecrane to volunteer to defend their country against an unjust invasion from vladimir puten. And i changed my mind when i read george orwell, one of my heroes, sit down in the midst of wordward, to to the seemingly unlikely task of writing a defence of patriotism. If british intellectuals had succeeded in their goal
Robert P. George is an American legal scholar and political philosopher. The McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, George is considered one of the foremost conservative intellectuals in America, and advocates a theory of natural law consistent with Catholic belief. With Cornel West, he authored a statement on “Truth Seeking, Democracy, and Freedom of Thought and Expression.”
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Robert P. George discuss the political philosophy of John Rawls, why democratic republics can’t function without free speech, and what relevance the first principles of conservatism do or don't retain today.
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