Circling Liberalism’s Wagons | Interview: Adrian Wooldridge

It’s Brit week here on The Remnant, and after starting off  with a crowd-pleaser (Charlie Cooke), Jonah Goldberg decided to follow up with someone new. Adrian Wooldridge, global business columnist at Bloomberg Opinion, joins Jonah to talk about the meaning of liberalism, limiting principles, immigration, tolerance, individualism, non-Western liberalism, Big Tech, kids, public broadcasting, FDR, positive liberties, John Stuart Mill, and the transatlantic A\alliance. Show Notes:—Adrian Wooldridge: The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism—David Brooks: Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There—Daniel Burns in National Affairs: “Liberal Practice v. Liberal Theory”—Larry Siedentop: Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism—Jonah’s last book: Suicide of the West—Hannah Arendt Remnant The Remnant is a production of ⁠The Dispatch⁠, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including access to all of Jonah’s G-File newsletters—⁠click here⁠. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠by clicking here⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices