Bryan Garsten

Bryan Garsten, a political theorist at Yale University, is the author of Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment (Harvard University Press).

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A Challenge, Not an Epitaph

Professor Deneen’s book spurs us to exercise our rights more wisely, thus proving that we are indeed capable of living as a community of liberated individuals

By Bryan Garsten

December 3, 2018

Secularism and Modernity

Philosophy

Book Essay

postliberalism

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