Stephen Yearwood
1 min readOct 6, 2019

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I haven’t read the book, but it sounds to me like Deneen was writing about Liberalism, the meta-philosophy, and you’re writing about liberalism as the narrower political philosophy it spawned — along with the other political philosophies of libertarianism, conservatism, and democratic (non-Marxist) socialism. All are Liberal because they accept equality and liberty as the ‘twin pillars of justice’. If Deneen ultimately fails to make those distinctions his book should be unworthy of being published — and definitely doesn’t need to be read. If he does make them, I’m afraid the mistake is yours.

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Stephen Yearwood
Stephen Yearwood

Written by Stephen Yearwood

M.A. in political economy (money/distributive justice) "Please don't confront me with my failures/ I'm aware of them" from "These Days," as sung by Gregg Allman

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