George F. Will

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The Munk Debates Podcast · Be it Resolved, liberalism gets the big questions right · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

We can live together in a liberal society because the government is neutral about such things.

Some people in politics say, let's envision the best and pursue it.

Prudent classic liberals say, let's define the worst and avoid it.

And Lord knows we've had enough of those.

Classic liberalism, let's define it with economy.

It believes there is a settled human nature and that natural rights are derived from that.

Natural rights are rights that history teaches us

are essential to the flourishing of people with our nature.

All illiberal politics in the last two centuries has begun by saying that there is no fixed human nature, that human beings are merely products of the culture they find themselves raised in, that malleability is the most important feature of human beings, and therefore,

Firm, hard-driving, coercive politics is justified to produce the proper consciousness in people.

False consciousness must be gone.

People must be conditioned.

Speech must be limited because it does harm by giving people the wrong consciousness.

The vocabulary of liberalism cannot cope with that.

And when you go down that path,

You wind up either with the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia or on a typical American campus today.

Another way that liberalism keeps the peace, and remember, peace is always the fundamental problem, is by having markets allocate most of the money.

opportunity and wealth.

The alternative is political power will allocate opportunity and wealth.

And that way lies bitterness.

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