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Friday Oct 18, 2024
Friday Oct 18, 2024
On the left-wing case for freedom.
Regular contributor Alex Gourevitch is back on to talk about how the Democrats are approaching the US presidential election. Alex talks us through an influential and widely-read article that he wrote in 2020 with Corey Robin on how the left needed to reclaim freedom as its own.
We discuss:
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Why is the left suddenly talking about freedom?
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When did it abandon freedom in favour of human rights, welfare, or identity?
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What are the consequences of leaving "freedom" to the libertarians and oligarchs?
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How would one critique what the Democrats are doing today from this perspective?
Plus: we hear about Alex’s debate with Tyler Cowen on whether capitalism is defensible.
Links:
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Gaining freedom by escaping the unfreedom of the workplace - PNHP
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Freedom Now, Alex Gourevitch & Corey Robin, Polity: Vol 52, No 3
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The US presidential race will be fought over competing definitions of ‘freedom’, Eric Foner, The Guardian
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The Story of American Freedom, Eric Foner
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