FreeThoughts, Ep. 193: Liberalism 1.0 (with Deirdre McCloskey)
Channel: Libertarianism.org
Date: 2017-06-30

Deirdre McCloskey has a few suggestions that she hopes will make libertarians more humane, compassionate, and empathetic. What sort of rhetorical tactics should libertarians use?

In this episode, we also talk about the “slow socialism” of the New Left, inequality, whether an affluent liberal society sows the seeds of its own demise, and McCloskey’s personal ideological journey from “Joan Baez-style” Marxism to liberalism.

Show Notes and Further Reading

The essay that inspired this episode, “Manifesto for a New American Liberalism, or How to Be a Humane Libertarian,” can be found here on McCloskey’s website:
http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/docs/pdf/McCloskey_ManifestoForANewAmericanLiberalism.pdf

Here’s a previous Free Thoughts episode with McCloskey on her excellent Bourgeois Era book series:
https://www.libertarianism.org/media/free-thoughts/bourgeois-era

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