The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik.

In Defense of Liberalism

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 20, 2019

Staff writer for The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik, also author of A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism Basic Books (Basic Books, 2019) argues that "liberalism" is not a political ideology, but a way of life.

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