Automated Liberalism?
H/T Brian Smith. This from the Law & Liberty blog. Age of EnlightenmentArtificial intelligencebenjamin constantilliberalismJames PoulosJohn Stuart MillLiberalismNetwork ScienceSocial network
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Liturgy of Liberalism
Adrian Vermeule’s review of Ryszard Legutko’s The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies. Adrian VermeuleAge of EnlightenmentdemocracyfreedomLiberalismPolitical philosophyRyszard Legutkototalitarianism
Adam Smith and the Past, Present, and Future of Liberalism
Matt Ridley in The Journal of Private Enterprise, 32(3): 1-7. Adam SmithcapitalismilliberalismLiberalismmatt ridleyregressive leftSpontaneous orderVernon Smith
Benjamin Constant
Born on this day benjamin constantfreedomLiberalismLibertyPolitical philosophyscottish philosophy
Peter Boghossian and Dave Rubin on Postmodernism and Bad Journalism
Really chuffed to have Peter on the editorial board of Studies in Classical Liberalism. Dave RubinLiberalismliberalityPeter Boghossianregressive left
Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
Austrian EconomicsauthoritarianismBehavioral economicsclassical liberalismconstructivismdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgerationalismregressive leftsituated cognitionspontaneous orders
Faces of Moderation: The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes
A promising new title from U of Penn with several references to Aristotle, Hume, Oakeshott, Hayek, Aron, Berlin and more besides. The business of a government [is] not to inflame passion and give it new objects to feed upon, but to inject into the activities of already too passionate men an ingredient of moderation. — Michael Oakeshott…
Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque
Born on this day in 1767 He loved liberty as other men love power benjamin constantfree speechKantLiberalismNapPolitical philosophyregressive left
Beyond Radical Secularism: How France and the Christian West Should Respond to the Islamic Challenge
Here is a review by the excellent Gene Callahan of Pierre Manent’s book Situation de la France. (I’d put money on some getting their knickers in a twist about the cover) Gene CallahanislamLiberalismmulticulturalismphilosophy of social sciencePierre ManentPolitical philosophyregressive leftsocial epistemology
How Brexit shattered progressives’ dearest illusions
a quasi-eschatological faith in historical progress Well put Damon! Here is one of the more insightful, philosophically literate and least hysterical or pompous analyses. On this topic I have written the following in a forthcoming paper. Epistemic humility is not seen as a cultural virtue: it is the zeitgeist of the modern age that we exist…
