One year ago I began writing my book -
Mechanisms of Liberty: The Shortcomings of Modern Liberalism and How to Fix It
It deals with ideas I've been interested in for at least six years already. A year ago, someone challenged me about Liberalism. I wrote him a message with the perspective on Liberalism I developed over these years, and came to the conclusion that I should expand it into an essay, because I don't know anyone who says the same things I do.
So I began working on the essay, and after about a month of work, I realized what I was working on was much more than just an "essay" - it needed to be a book.
This is the first time I'm writing about it in detail publicly. Here's a longer description of it:
Western civilization is founded on the idea that due to our inherently limited capacities, we lack the right to coerce others and therefore have a right to equal Liberty, from which springs our tradition of Human Rights, Democracy, Free Discourse, and Free Markets.
This idea is called Liberalism, and Liberalism is in peril.
It is currently being attacked on all fronts. More and more people are blaming the problems humanity is facing and our inability to solve them on a fundamental failing of Liberalism, while pushing for illiberal alternatives.
Meanwhile, even the defenders of Liberalism don't seem to truly understand it, and fail to give satisfying answers to criticism.
This book takes the shortcomings of modern Liberalism seriously, but argues that the fundamental principles of Liberalism are correct. That correct implementation of them resulted in progress and prosperity. And their failures were because of misunderstanding and misimplementation.
To solve our most dire problems and create widespread liberty and prosperity, this book offers a comprehensive new vision of Liberalism, spanning over 20 subjects where its principles are misimplemented in a way that endangers both it and us, and suggests solutions that accord with its principles.
It's not easy for me to shed the self-doubt and say this, but - I believe this book is extremely important. It's not nearly finished yet - I wrote 15,000 words - but it's at the top of my priorities, and I work on it every day (most of the work is research, not writing).
One year ago I began writing my book -
Mechanisms of Liberty: The Shortcomings of Modern Liberalism and How to Fix It
It deals with ideas I've been interested in for at least six years already. A year ago, someone challenged me about Liberalism. I wrote him a message with the perspective on Liberalism I developed over these years, and came to the conclusion that I should expand it into an essay, because I don't know anyone who says the same things I do.
So I began working on the essay, and after about a month of work, I realized what I was working on was much more than just an "essay" - it needed to be a book.
This is the first time I'm writing about it in detail publicly. Here's a longer description of it:
It's not easy for me to shed the self-doubt and say this, but - I believe this book is extremely important. It's not nearly finished yet - I wrote 15,000 words - but it's at the top of my priorities, and I work on it every day (most of the work is research, not writing).
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