This is a series of CBSi in the world. I'm John Bachelor.

Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution writing at real clear politics invites me to a new book, Alexander Le Fevers,

liberalism as a way of life.

The professor is in University of Sydney, far away in another hemisphere.

However, he writes of a term that is much in the news all the time, the liberals,

liberalism, progressivism, all these terms require very careful and timely definition.

Peter, you have the advantage, you've read the book and you're reviewing it in part and philosophizing in part.

So does Mr. does the professor define liberalism?

Is there a general assumption in the book that we know what it is?

Good evening to you.

Good evening, Chine. Yes, he does. He begins with a very bold assertion that

liberalism is the air that we breathe. That's if we were fish, the water in which we swim, meaning we're

surrounded by its assumptions, its norms, its institutions.

And in this sense, he has a fairly easy to understand a definition of liberalism.

Liberalism is a belief that human beings are easy to understand a definition of liberalism.

Liberalism is the belief that human beings are by nature free and equal,

that we have institutions that reflect this opinion.

And so we grow up learning to tolerate strangers to respect people, to stand in lines, to expect people will have different color skin and different sets of beliefs and so on and

we learn to live with them.

And to that extent it seems to me he's correct. However, within that big broad, those big

broad assumptions and those political institutions, what he does not do

justice to is that one could still adopt conservative political

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