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Ep. 156 - The Counterweight: The Common Good & American Liberalism
A little more than eight months into the second Trump presidency, many Americans today find the United States increasingly unrecognizable: a volatile and inflationary economy, rising political violence, and brazen corruption at all levels of government don’t appear to be going away anytime soon.
So how did we get here? What lessons can we learn from the histories of other countries, especially ones that experienced radical destabilization and an authoritarian turn?
To answer these questions, on this episode we’re speaking with Hille Haker, a professor of Catholic Moral Theology at Loyola…
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