Has Freedom Failed Us? A Debate
Honestly | Bari Weiss, Patrick Deneen, Bret Stephens
Bari Weiss hosts an important debate during a time in which the very idea of “liberalism” is being questioned. NYT’s Bret Stephens debates Notre Dame professor and author Patrick Deneen on the question, “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.”
