Defending Classical Liberalism To A Post-Liberal: My Conversation With Benjamin Boyce

Neoliberal society is broken. Don't throw out the better liberalism alongside it.

On Wednesday, November 22nd, I appeared on Calmversations with Benjamin Boyce to discuss my new book Redefining Racism and to defend classical liberalism. Boyce leans towards a right-wing post-liberal perspective, and while I find a lot of compelling ideas in post-liberal philosophy, I also find it generally fails to understand what classical liberalism actually is. Failing to understand classical liberalism, post-liberals instead often attack a straw man. I argue to Benjamin that classical liberalism, properly understood, provides solutions for all the failings of our neoliberal era that Benjamin and other post-liberals have correctly identified.

I greatly enjoyed my conversation with Benjamin. We focused mostly on my views in this podcast, but I hope to host him here on The Black Sheep soon to have him talk more about his.

Below the embedded video, you’ll find an edited transcription of what I think were some of the most interesting sections from our conversation.

— Jake