i'm not so sure about the role that archetypeal stories of the past are imbedded in me without my fully standing or appreciating it. I think there is a temptation, especially among libertarians, to think that, you know, somehow i can stand on the mountain top independent of everyone. In fact, i'm, in many ways, not fully of free will. And also a theme near and dear to the founder of liberty fund, owing to man's imperfection. But i think if we acknowledge our own lives, people who have shaped us most, it usually wasn't a market transaction but was a gift out of duty and love for each other. That's very much alive
Richard Reinsch, editor of Law and Liberty and the host of the podcast Liberty Law Talk, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Enlightenment. Topics discussed include the search for meaning, the stability of liberalism, the rise of populism, and Solzhenitsyn's indictment of Western values from his Harvard Commencement Address of 1978.