Literature, Liberalism, and Murder
A conversation with Liberalism.org Fellow Sarah Skwire
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What does a thriller about a murderous house-hunter have to do with liberalism? Quite a lot, it turns out.
On today’s new episode of The Liberalism.org Show, I sat down with Sarah Skwire, Senior Program Officer at Liberty Fund and a Liberalism.org Fellow, for a conversation about her article “Mini Tacos, Murder, and the Problem of Getting Exactly What We Want.” We explore how narrative can persuade where data can't, how literature trains empathy by putting us inside other minds, and how the very abundance that liberalism celebrates can paradoxically generate its own kind of scarcity—one we engineer through our own over-optimized desires.
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Aaron Ross Powell hosts The Liberalism.org Show and writes about political ethics and the practices, perspectives, and values of liberalism.
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