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- Giving the Devil His Due
- Giving the Devil His Due
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Who Is the Devil and What Is He Due?
- Part I The Advocatus Diaboli: Reflections on Free Thought and Free Speech
- Part II Homo Religiosus: Reflections on God and Religion
- Part III Deferred Dreams: Reflections on Politics and Society
- Chapter 12 Another Dream Deferred
- Chapter 13 Healing the Bonds of Affection
- Chapter 14 Governing Mars
- Chapter 15 The Sandy Hook Effect
- Chapter 16 On Guns and Tyranny
- Chapter 17 Debating Guns
- Chapter 18 Another Fatal Conceit
- Part IV Scientia Humanitatis: Reflections on Scientific Humanism
- Part V Transcendent Thinkers: Reflections on Controversial Intellectuals
- Notes
- Index
Chapter 13 - Healing the Bonds of Affection
The Case for Classical Liberalism
from Part III - Deferred Dreams: Reflections on Politics and Society
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2020
- Giving the Devil His Due
- Giving the Devil His Due
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Who Is the Devil and What Is He Due?
- Part I The Advocatus Diaboli: Reflections on Free Thought and Free Speech
- Part II Homo Religiosus: Reflections on God and Religion
- Part III Deferred Dreams: Reflections on Politics and Society
- Chapter 12 Another Dream Deferred
- Chapter 13 Healing the Bonds of Affection
- Chapter 14 Governing Mars
- Chapter 15 The Sandy Hook Effect
- Chapter 16 On Guns and Tyranny
- Chapter 17 Debating Guns
- Chapter 18 Another Fatal Conceit
- Part IV Scientia Humanitatis: Reflections on Scientific Humanism
- Part V Transcendent Thinkers: Reflections on Controversial Intellectuals
- Notes
- Index
Summary
When I was writing The Moral Arc, I found my life-long libertarianism challenged on so many fronts that I began to reconsider my politics and to look for a new label, one that better described what I came to believe was the right balance between Left and Right, between liberalism and conservatism. I believe I may have found it in classical liberalism, a defense of which follows in this essay, originally published in the online magazine Quillette.
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- Giving the Devil his DueReflections of a Scientific Humanist, pp. 134 - 144Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020