Liberalism and Its Discontents

Harvard HLS

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam To its defenders, liberalism establishes the only workable way to govern a diverse society: pluralism and tolerance in the private sphere, political equality and the rule of law in the public sphere, and the free market as the primary mediator of material needs and wants. But, critics contend, liberalism too often fails to defend its premises, and it lacks an internal theory of its limits. Indeed, many of the most pressing debates in modern…