Liberalism Against Itself
A Conversation with Samuel Moyn

12.00-1.30pm | Friday, April 19
Elm Library, 31 Whitney Avenue

Confronted by devastating wars, rising totalitarianism, and permanent nuclear terror, many mid-century liberals concluded that Enlightenment ideals, far from offering a solution to these problems, were ultimately responsible for them. They responded by abandoning the Enlightenment ideals of emancipation and equality in favor of a liberalism focused on preserving individual liberty at all costs. What are the prospects for a twenty-first century liberalism that recaptures its Enlightenment heritage?

Samuel Moyn is Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University.

This event is open to all members of the Yale community. Lunch will be served.

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Liberalism is a belief in radical change through practical measures.

—Adam Gopnik