Single Idea 23143

[catalogued under 24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / a. Liberalism basics]

Full Idea

What liberalism can say on its own behalf is that no system of power in human history has tried harder to insert a corrective conscience into its institutions.

Gist of Idea

Liberals have tried very hard to build a conscience into their institutions

Source

Adam Gopnik (A Thousand Small Sanities [2019], 3)

Book Reference

Gopnik,Adam: 'A Thousand Small Sanities' [riverrun 2019], p.195


A Reaction

What we are learning in recent years is that wonderful liberal institutions can be quietly eroded by the forces of darkness, once those forces have sufficient control of the media to hide what they are doing. The 'rule of law' is wobbling.