Has Liberalism Forgotten Civic Virtue? (Out of the Jaws #2, with J. J. McCullough)
Has liberalism forgotten civic virtue? Liberal commentator Ryan Geddie and Liberal Currents publisher Adam Gurri talk with Canadian political commentator,
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The reactionary right is in ascendance in the Trump administration. It's easy to dismiss them as a cabal of incoherent fools scrambling for Trump's ear. But there is a deeper philosophy animating their political project: one based on a longing for an imagined aristocratic past, a craving for hierarchy and certainty, and simultaneously a deeply ambivalent relation to modernity. Samantha is joined by political theorist Professor Matt McManus for a discussion of his recent essay, "The Far Right Canon."
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