Helena Rosenblatt on the Lost History of Liberalism
Mike talks with Helena Rosenblatt, a professor of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York about her latest book, . Topics Mike & Helena discuss include: the meaning of liberalism in ancient Greece and Rome liberalism as...
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Show Notes
Mike talks with Helena Rosenblatt, a professor of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York about her latest book, The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century.
Topics Mike & Helena discuss include:
- the meaning of liberalism in ancient Greece and Rome
- liberalism as an aristocratic virtue
- the connection between liberalism and education
- the Catholic Church as an historical opponent of liberalism
- classical, ‘laissez faire’ liberalism
- progressive Republicans, Wilsonian Democrats, and 20th century American liberalism
- how mid-twentieth century totalitarianism affected liberalism
- the key challenges to modern liberalism
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