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Cass Sunstein: belief

26 Nov 2025 Conversations with Tyler Cass Sunstein on Liberalism and Rights in the Age of AI

“I think that the form of liberalism that is the origin of woke is Mill’s book on the subjection of women, which is one of the great liberal texts.”

— Cass Sunstein

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Cass Sunstein
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belief
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26 Nov 2025
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Conversations with Tyler

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…Now, feel free to challenge the premise of this question, but how did some aspects of our liberalism — mostly on the left — evolve into a kind of anti-liberal wokeism and intolerance? What, conceptually, went on there? That’s great. I think that the form of liberalism that is the origin of woke is Mill’s book on the subjection of women, which is one of the great liberal texts. Very best books of all time, right? I think it’s great.…

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