Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times / Samuel Moyn
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🗓️ 29 September 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The water is with the |
| 0:05.0 | the water is with the |
| 0:08.0 | our power and water. Make it back a check. This is hell and a dissenting opinion among liberals would be that |
| 0:46.7 | liberalism needs to be reformed, reconsidered, re-examined, improved upon, fixed in any way in response to the rise of the far right, |
| 0:57.1 | Trumpism, and the many conservative victories over the past several decades, |
| 1:00.5 | including those within and against liberalism itself. For whatever reason, today's |
| 1:06.4 | liberals and the current form of liberalism refuses to adapt and change. Sure liberalism changed into an idea that was pro-market rather than |
| 1:16.6 | pro-worker and supportive of military intervention instead of diplomacy, but it appears they |
| 1:22.1 | ain't changing back. Instead, liberalism repeatedly doubled |
| 1:26.0 | down on not only neoliberalism, but neo-conservatism as well, prioritizing free market |
| 1:31.8 | globalization over efforts at worldwide equality in war |
| 1:37.0 | seemingly anywhere and everywhere instead of doing more to embrace freedom |
| 1:42.1 | and liberty at home. In a few minutes we'll find out what the |
| 1:45.7 | hell happened to liberalism and why liberals refuse to acknowledge their mistakes when we have |
| 1:50.4 | the return of historian Samuel Moyne, author of liberalism against itself, |
| 1:54.8 | Cold War intellectuals and the making of our times. |
| 1:57.9 | Samuel is Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University. He came to Yale |
| 2:05.0 | from Harvard University where he was Jeremiah Smith |
| 2:07.4 | junior professor of law and professor of history. Before that he spent |
| 2:11.3 | 13 years in the Columbia University History Department where he was mostly or most recently James Bryce Professor of European Legal History. |
| 2:20.0 | At Columbia he was given the Mark Van Doren Teaching Award, the 46th annual by undergraduates. |
| 2:27.0 | His areas of interest in legal scholarship include international law, human rights, the law of, and Legal Thought, in both historical and current perspective. |
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