
Progress, Classical Liberalism, and the New Right | Podcast Highlights
Saul Zimet
created: May 30, 2025, 8:22 p.m. | updated: June 4, 2025, 7:39 p.m.
So classical liberals are not comfortable wielding power, but don’t classical liberals need a strategy to dismantle the administrative state or greatly reduce its power?
Is it simply that classical liberalism gives people the freedom to do what they please with their lives?
I’m not saying I blame classical liberalism for that, but I’m also not sure liberalism has solved that problem.
I would also like you to address a criticism of classical liberalism made by Patrick Deneen, who believes that classical liberalism is unsustainable because it depletes the moral and cultural capital it inherited from pre-liberal traditions.
So, as classical liberalism progresses, it undermines the very conditions—such as trust, civic virtue, and shared norms—that allow classical liberalism to function in the first place.
1 month, 2 weeks ago: HumanProgress