Liberalism in some has promoted liberation, but delivered loneliness.

It is advocated for economic leveling, but produced stagnation.

It's argued for fairness, but delivered mediocrity.

And it's promoted tolerance, but has delivered intellectual totalitarianism.

But alas, there's good news. The French Revolution failed, too.

Welcome back to the Kevin Robert Chote's special, special episode as we're going to be walking through Dr. Roberts opening remarks at a debate that was held in Yale.

The proposition before the room resolved. Liberalism has failed. Well, Dr. Roberts must have been like a dog with the bone with that one. And you gave the opening remarks, right? Yeah. In fact,

when I saw the resolution, I asked my staff, I said, well, where do I start? I mean,

there's so much to say. So I tried to limit myself to the 12 failures of liberalism.

All right. So you opened in the case in favor of the resolution, obviously, but you argued first that you needed to define terms because modern liberalism is not what many people, people who went to Yale 150 years ago,

would have recognized as liberalism, right?

Yeah, that's right.

I wanted to be sure that the resolution, which was intended to be a focus on the modern American left,

actually had that focus or the debate did, because what you're getting at is that even the modern conservative

movement or one part of the modern conservative movement comes out of this classical liberal

tradition, this this tradition of enlightenment philosophy that focuses on limited government,

that focuses on freedom as the operative word. And I did not want to let the the radical American left co-op

that tradition and somehow make it easier for them to defend it. And so we made that distinction,

which was a good distinction, because the thrust of my argument was that if you take political

liberalism, left of center ideology in this country, say in the 1940s and 1950s,

that's the origins of this modern radical American left. But even that, those origins,

that particular era, I would say all the way until the 1970s, it was not nearly as radical

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