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Declaring our dependence

December 2020 Newsletter

Gracy Olmstead
Aug 26, 2021
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Claude Monet, The Magpie

Liberalism generally assumes the autonomous individual and a "state of nature" characterized by independence. We are seen as primarily responsible for and accountable to ourselves. 

But there’s very little lived reality to this characterization of the self: as Leah Libresco Sargeant points out in a new article for Plough, "depende…

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