{"id":5122,"date":"2022-04-17T01:51:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T01:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=5122"},"modified":"2022-04-17T01:51:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T01:51:57","slug":"why-i-am-not-a-liberal-liam-bright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/17\/why-i-am-not-a-liberal-liam-bright\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Am not a Liberal &#8211; Liam Bright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sootyempiric.blogspot.com\/2022\/04\/why-i-am-not-liberal.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgZRa11oUTL2HpppDVMKAX3hbeGbUx3CMkijNP1eCVm_Q1lDWQTpvq-u4-8X7aAHVE72FVsqr87I53LaLhAObXjz558ertgFaX5ug6C6IsFwpdDBu6WhYthMIKVcO98UWx7Y04C6YNobLzOGO0ZipRsGPmDdecHIpNqLaiMny80RJvf4cTTaullvAEu_g=w640-h334\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is one of the most cogent critiques (from the left) of liberalism (in the sense of basing society on Enlightenment values like pluralist tolerance, the primacy of the individual, etc) that I&#8217;ve read. The author genuinely addresses a non-strawman version of liberalism, unlike a lot of the critique from the left which just dismisses it as (in Bright&#8217;s words) &#8216;<span class=\"s2\">a loser thing boring normies do<\/span>&#8216;).<\/p>\n<p>Bright also links at the end to some response pieces, of which I found <a href=\"https:\/\/duncanlaw.wordpress.com\/2022\/04\/06\/liam-bright-on-liberalism\/\">this one <\/a>especially good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the most cogent critiques (from the left) of liberalism (in the sense of basing society on Enlightenment values like pluralist tolerance, the primacy of the individual, etc) that I&#8217;ve read. The author genuinely addresses a non-strawman version of liberalism, unlike a lot of the critique from the left which just dismisses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-1kC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5123,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions\/5123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}