In Science Salon # 91 Michael Shermer speaks with James Traub about his new book What Was Liberalism? The Past, Present, and Promise of a Noble Idea.
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eSkeptic for November 12, 2019
James Traub — What Was Liberalism? The Past, Present, and Promise of a Noble Idea
Shermer and Traub discuss: the changing meaning of “liberalism” • why the first liberals were deeply skeptical of majority rule • how liberalism become the national creed of the most powerful country in the world • Donald Trump as the first American president to regard liberal values with open contempt • identity politics • political correctness • what a potential future for liberalism would look like.
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