344 | Adam Gurri on Liberal Democracy and How to Fight For It
2/16/20261 hr 21 min
It's possible to look at the course of history over the past few centuries and discern a movement toward increasing democracy, freedom, and individual rights -- "liberalism," in the political-philosophy sense of the term. But such movement isn't inevitable or irreversible, and in very recent times there have been both intellectual arguments explicitly pushing back against the liberal consensus, and political movements that are more openly nativist and authoritarian. I talk with Adam Gurri, the editor-in-chief of Liberal Currents, a web site that "publishes writers of diverse perspectives who share an unflinching commitment to freedom, pluralism, and democracy, in o...
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Mindscape podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. I'm guessing that many Mindscape listeners grew up and or live in some version of a liberal democracy. That is to say, some society where there was at least lip service given to the ideals of individual liberty and the right of different people