Sometimes it’s valuable to reiterate truths, even if one has argued for them before (indeed several times). One such truth is that skepticism about power cannot successfully underwrite liberalism, in the sense of skepticism about the authority of the state, the “liberalism of fear.” The problem is that skepticism about power, as an argument, is in a sen…
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