PodcastLiberal Democracy in an Age of Upheaval
Here’s what he said:
The liberal belief in moderation is not just cowardly timidity. It comes from a deep historical experience, above all, of the costs of revolution.
The global geostrategic order is in a period of tremendous flux, but the global economic order seems to be readjusting and showing a resilience we didn’t expect.
It’s about balancing respect for institutions that guarantee our freedom, against the imperative to get things done quickly.
We may be in a world in which we simply have no United Nations system to guarantee international law and protect sovereignty. And we’ll be in a rearming world.
Authoritarian populist movements only succeed when democracies fail.
I don’t know how it’s going to turn out, but I’m unafraid of what’s going to happen. I hope we can spread that sense of curious lucidity as far as we can.
