About this episode

Curtis Yarvin, Minna Salami, and Yascha Mounk debate the nature of freedom in a liberal society.

Curtis Yarvin, Minna Salami, and Yascha Mounk discuss whether we can ever be free in a liberal society in a discussion moderated by Roger Hearing. In this special episode of The Good Fight, recorded at the How The Light Gets In Festival, Roger Hearing moderates a debate between Curtis Yarvin, Minna Salami, and Yascha Mounk on whether liberalism can ever be neutral, what a truly free society would look like, and whether liberalism’s heyday is over. Find out more about the Institute of Arts and Ideas—and book tickets to this year’s How The Light Gets In Festival in September—here. Watch the video of the debate here. Roger Hearing is a broadcaster and journalist with over 30 years experience presenting and reporting for BBC News and Bloomberg. Minna Salami is an award-winning Nigerian-Finnish and Swedish author, cultural critic, and independent scholar based in London. She is the author of Can Feminism Be African?: A Most Paradoxical Question. Curtis Yarvin is a political blogger and software developer. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following ⁠⁠this link on your phone⁠⁠. Email: leonora.barclay@persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack…

People in this episode

Host: Yascha Mounk

Guests: Curtis Yarvin, Minna Salami

Topics covered

• liberalism
• freedom
• debate
• society
• politics

Keywords

• liberal society
• freedom
• Curtis Yarvin
• Minna Salami
• Yascha Mounk
• debate
• How The Light Gets In Festival

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Institute of Arts and Ideas

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