HeyJaredThe Permanent Problem
In dozens of provocative essays published on his Substack and cross-posted here, Brink Lindsey has explored what John Maynard Keynes called humanity’s “permanent problem:” the quest to “live wisely and agreeably and well” with the vast resources and powers that capitalist…
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Responding to the crisis of liberalism, Jonathan Rauch (opens the original)
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Liberal values and institutions now face aggressive challenges from both right and left extremism, so how should defenders of the embattled liberal center respond?
Everyday ambition, everyday abundance, with Virginia Postrel (opens the original)
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Postrel joins host Brink Lindsey to discuss how the unleashing of everyday ambition has given us a world of everyday abundance -- and why that world, for all its material blessings, still fails to satisfy.
Living near friends and family, with Phil Levin (opens the original)
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America is experiencing an epidemic of loneliness: marriage and birth rates, the number of close friendships, time spent with friends, and community involvement more broadly are all in decline.
Liberalism's cycles of crisis and renewal, with Adrian Wooldridge (opens the original)
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In the heady days after the collapse of the Soviet Union, many imagined that we had arrived at the “end of history” now that liberal democratic capitalism had chased all ideological competitors from the field.
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