“The Team Against the Committee”: Fighting Tyranny and Terrorism Without Losing Our Liberal Soul

Abstract

Bertrand de Jouvenel is an original thinker. More than any twentieth-century political philosopher that I know of, he has thought through the important and timely question of how a liberal democracy can deal with the challenges of tyranny and terrorism and still maintain its liberal or constitutional soul. Very few of the major figures within the "canon" of political philosophy can make such a claim.