Has Freedom Failed Us? A Debate

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 116 minutes

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If there is a headline to the past half-decade, it’s this: liberal democracy is under threat across the West and populist movements are on the march. There’s Brexit in the UK. There’s Viktor Orbán in Hungary. There’s Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil. And in the United States, of course, there’s Donald Trump. So today: a debate. Should we be fighting to preserve liberalism, the system that prizes our individual rights and the very foundation upon which America was built? Or is the system itself the problem? It’s a high-stakes debate—the future of America and liberal democracy—and we couldn’t have two better people for this conversation: Political Science Professor and author of the book, Why Liberalism Failed, Patrick Deneen; and New York Times opinion columnist Bret Stephens. Both Bret and Patrick are what people would label “conservatives,” but there is likely more disagreement between the two of them than between the average Democrat and Republican. Bret believes the problems we see today are happening because we have lost too much of our individual freedom. Patrick, on the other hand, believes that having so much freedom has actually damaged us– that our problems are caused precisely by the system that puts individual liberty on a pedestal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.0	This is honestly. If there's a headline that we could give to the past decade, I think it's this.
0:48.6	Liberal democracy is under threat across the West and beyond, and populist movements are on the march.
0:56.0	Overseas, Brexit is now a done deal. After nearly a half century of membership
1:00.0	Britain has withdrawn from the European Union.
1:03.0	Whether you're looking at Brexit in the UK,
1:05.0	listen, this is England there.
1:08.0	We've got our country back.
1:10.0	Victor Orban in Hungary. In Hungary, Bolsinaro in Brazil and in the U.S. of course.
1:17.0	Fellow Americans and people of the world. Thank you.
1:25.6	Donald Trump.
1:27.6	Big business, elite media and major donors are lining up behind the campaign of my opponent because they
1:37.8	know she will keep our rigged system in place.
1:43.2	They have total control over every single thing she does.
1:48.4	She is their puppet and they pull the strings.
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