Episode 984: Reading Paul Gottfried's 'Liberalism vs Democracy' w/ C.Jay Engel

Paul Gottfried, author of 'After Liberalism', discusses the complexities of defining liberalism and the movement from bourgeois liberal to mass democratic society. The podcast explores the origins of liberal and democratic movements, continuity and discontinuity in history, the ongoing revolution and the importance of progress, ethics and economics in mass democratic politics, the rise of individualism in Western modernity, the critique of American spirit and democracy, the decline of liberalism in Italy, John Stuart Mill's ideas, and the union of liberalism and democracy in American totalitarianism.