Part 2 of Walter Russell Mead’s thoughts on reforging America for the 21st century. I wonder if he’s read Albion’s Seed, which discusses at length the different flavors of the notion of liberty, depending on what part of England had settled that part of the new country.
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Sounds like an interesting book. It might help me understand some of the comments by Bob-1.
Mead seems to be heavily promoting “ordered liberty,” which makes sense to New England and northern-tier types, but not so much anywhere further south.
“Mead seems to be heavily promoting ‘ordered liberty’ . . . .” The key questions being: who gives the orders, and what are they ordering us to do?