I Think the Proper Liberal Attitude Is

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I would be happy to live in a society where it's rare rather than frequent. But i think we should allow itt what' specific about be schools in england, instead of tet, actually taxpayer funded. England is particularly gretse tat. I think it's a newlabe government ove introduced state fundent fat cours. Again, i think ther wol scites need to permit parents to sell, fund and organize schools along religious lines. There are lots of things that should be permitted that one doesn't need to be enthusiastic abot as a liberal. This is the great point of mills on liberty. He's talking about a liberal society, not just a liberal

Kwame Anthony Appiah is a British-Ghanaian philosopher, the Ethicist columnist for the New York Times Magazine, and one of today's deepest thinkers about the nature of identity. His scholarly writing, journalism, and novels help us to envision a world in which our professed categories enrich rather than impoverish—or, in his terms, a world which reveres “universality plus difference.”

In this week’s conversation, Kwame Anthony Appiah and Yascha Mounk discuss neutrality as a liberal ideal, the limits of identity politics, and the merits of race-abolitionism.

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