Feb 27, 2023
A salutary form of populism can challenge the post-democratic rule of elites. But can it govern?
This next edition of Liberty Law Talk is a conversation with the great American Founding historian Gordon Wood on a new two volume collection entitled the American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate that he has edited for Library of America. We discuss these foundational debates between British and colonial statesmen that contested the nature of law, sovereignty, rights, and constitutionalism and would serve as the basis of the revolution and lead to the creation of America.
A salutary form of populism can challenge the post-democratic rule of elites. But can it govern?
The "benevolent" government of Confucian thought is deeply defined by inegalitarian social hierarchies. It cannot liberalize.