Nov 19, 2019
The choice is not between a Spartan communitarianism or Brook Farm-style collectivism, and contemporary liberalism.
This discussion with Steven Smith, author of Modernity and Its Discontents, explores what it means to be modern and why an age that has produced so many gains and advances has also produced so many counter-enlightenments and apocalyptic responses. To love the modern age well, do we need to love it moderately?
The choice is not between a Spartan communitarianism or Brook Farm-style collectivism, and contemporary liberalism.
To preserve both the country and political philosophy, Jaffa returned to the beginning.