The Cartesian Faux Pas

2025-02-14

I write here to offer a teaser for a video on populism and classical liberalism, a lecture which I gave for the Bruno Leoni Institute in Milan. I redid the lecture on my own, and the recording has been graciously posted by Glenn Diesen:YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMMqrwZISjYThe slide-deck, which contains links, is here.Here are some points and slides from the lecture. I hope you find the video instructive!The deep state and its mouthpieces have been training people to revile “populism.”Here are some of the globalists’ adversaries that we are told to revile:However, as a classical liberal, I have been troubled at how some classical liberals have joined in the popuphobia.Thus, there are two types of popuphobes, swampy globalists and certain misguided