Aaron Ross Powell
ReImagining Liberty
Finding Meaning In Liberalism (w/ Akiva Malamet)
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Finding Meaning In Liberalism (w/ Akiva Malamet)

Illiberals accuse liberalism as taking away sources of meaning. Do they have a point?

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Today’s conversation is a companion to our prior episode. I’m joined again by

, managing editor of .

Last time we talked about identity within liberalism. Now we turn to meaning. Everyone wants to lead a meaningful life, but one of the critiques of liberalism is that a liberal society takes away traditional sources of meaning, and so leaves its citizens feeling detached, either unable to find meaning, or seeking it in frivolous, and so ultimately unmeaningful, pursuits. How compelling is this objection? And what should we, as liberals, do about it?

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Podcast art by Sergio R. M. Duarte. Music by Kevin MacLeod.

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Aaron Ross Powell
ReImagining Liberty
A show about the emancipatory and cosmopolitan case for radical social, political, and economic freedom. Hosted by Aaron Ross Powell.