Mike talks with Helena Rosenblatt, a professor of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York about her latest book, The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century.
Topics Mike & Helena discuss include:
the meaning of liberalism in ancient Greece and Rome liberalism as an aristocratic virtue the connection between liberalism and education the Catholic Church as an historical opponent of liberalism classical, ‘laissez faire’ liberalism progressive Republicans, Wilsonian Democrats, and 20th century American liberalism how mid-twentieth century totalitarianism affected liberalism the key challenges to modern liberalismHelena Rosenblatt on Twitter
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