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Free Thoughts, Ep. 189: Is Liberalism in Danger? (with Jacob T. Levy)

919 views · Published 5 June 2017 · 49:17 · Indexed 8 November 2026

Channel: Libertarianism.org · 2017 · News & Politics

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Jacob T. Levy says that the collapse of trust in institutional norms is what’s responsible for a new era of Trump-style authoritarian, “closed-society” populist politics here in America and around the globe.

What explains the Trump phenomenon? How did we get President Trump? Just an electoral appetite for “shaking things up,” or is it something deeper? How does Trump think? How does he make decisions?

Show Notes and Further Reading

Our other episode with Levy on his book “Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom” is required listening if you’re interested in what’s being played out in the political sphere these days.
https://www.libertarianism.org/media/free-thoughts/rationalism-pluralism-freedom

Levy also mentions this essay he wrote on identity politics, “The Defense of Liberty Can’t Do Without Identity Politics.”
https://niskanencenter.org/blog/defense-liberty-cant-without-identity-politics/

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