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Ryszard Legutko is a professor of philosophy at Jagellonian University in Krakow, Poland. He has served as Minister of Education, Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the late President Lech Kaczynski, and Deputy Speaker of the Senate. He is currently a Member of the European Parliament and a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

August 30, 2016|Civil Society, communism, Equality, European Union, Ryszard Legutko, solidarity, The Demon in Democracy

Liberal Democracy’s Challenge to Freedom: A Conversation with Ryszard Legutko

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The great Polish political theorist, anti-communist thinker and member of Solidarity, Minister of Education, Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the late President Lech Kaczynski, and Deputy Speaker of the Senate, and current member of the European Parliament, Ryszard Legutko, joins this edition of Liberty Law Talk to discuss his latest book, The Demon in Democracy.

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