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A Thousand Small Sanities

The Moral Adventure of Liberalism

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A Thousand Small Sanities

Written by: Adam Gopnik
Narrated by: Adam Gopnik
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The New York Times best-selling author offers a stirring defence of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time. Not since the early 20th century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our era has produced a crisis of faith in liberal institutions and, even worse, in liberal thought.

A Thousand Small Sanities is a manifesto rooted in the lives of people who invented and extended the liberal tradition. Taking us from Montaigne to Mill, and from Middlemarch to the civil rights movement, Adam Gopnik argues that liberalism is not a form of centrism, nor simply another word for free markets, nor merely a term denoting a set of rights. It is something far more ambitious: the search for radical change by humane measures.

Gopnik shows us why liberalism is one of the great moral adventures in human history - and why, in an age of autocracy, our lives may depend on its continuation.

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I saw how currently dilution of the word liberalism has put in kind of double sided conflict the very ideas of human liberty and freedom with reason and reform , and this book clearly explains why it it so. the book rightly states the origin and principles of liberalism as not on some modern social or economic principles , but on two simple thoughts reason and reform is what drives a society forward towards a better future.

necessary to know liberalism

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