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2/2: #POLITICALPHILOSOPHY: Pacifism, Isolationism, the Progressive Left, the New Right, and a repudiation of the Cold War Liberalism. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution.

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🗓️ 6 February 2024

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2/2: #POLITICALPHILOSOPHY: Pacifism, Isolationism, the Progressive Left, the New Right, and a repudiation of the Cold War Liberalism. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/02/04/prof_moyns_jeremiad_against_limited_government_150435.html
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This is a

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CVS, I and the World. I'm John Bachelor with Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution who's traveling.

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He's in the United Kingdom to address some undergraduates and senior

0:16.7

figures at Oxford University with a lecture in these next days freedom democracy

0:22.0

and the US Declaration of Independence.

0:24.6

We're discussing right now Peter's most recent article at Real Clear Politics, which is itself

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an analysis of a very prominent book, Peter tells me, by Samuel Moy and Professor of Law at Yale University,

0:38.0

about Cold War liberalism having failed, or as the professor puts,

0:42.0

liberalism against itself.

0:44.9

And Peter, we come to your analysis of Samuel Moyne in your essay and the first is Professor

0:52.1

Moyne is is troubled that these distinguished intellectuals,

0:56.4

Schklar, Berlin, Popper, Himmofar, Arrant, and Trilling have deviated from class from

1:04.8

from liberalism what is that what is what is

1:07.4

what deviation is he thinking of I that through me yes it's a puzzling book because his criticisms are very harsh. But then you ask yourself,

1:20.5

what exactly are Professor's Moyne Moines premises, even though he's a

1:24.8

professor of law and a professor of history? He doesn't actually lay out his

1:29.1

premises clearly and he doesn't provide anything like enough historical context to know where his argument

1:37.4

begins, what the definitions are and so on.

1:41.0

But eventually you come to the realization of the structure of his case.

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The structure of his case is to announce his own moral and political preferences

1:52.0

and then demonstrate the ways in which Judish Clara,

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Han O'Rant, Gertrude Hermophar, Carl Popper, Laionotrilly, and Isabr, to demonstrate the extent

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