"The great foundational thinkers are no longer widely read. Outside of a few quotes here and there, for instance, not many educated liberals are familiar with the political writings of Immanuel Kant, John Locke, J.S Mill, Benjamin Constant, Jeremy Bentham, Mary Wollstonecraft, Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin…to name a few of the major names. "Classic texts like The Federalist Papers have been reduced to a few out-of-context quotes that people hurl at opponents thoughtlessly. "This unfamiliarity with the foundational ideas matters because when Liberalism is challenged it can only be defended when one is familiar with the arguments made on key issues by those whole ideas created the modern world. For Liberalism is the first child of The Enlightenment" wrote Sina Odugbemi in a wider sense of the word... Who’s not tempted or impelled, somehow, to be the child the great  Elvie Thomas sings to in her “Motherless Child Blues”? Or the one that the unforgettable cuban singer Bola de Nieve's sings to in "Drume Negrita"? or the other that a fatherly  Axl Rose asks where to go to in "Sweet Child of Mine", stating a landmark in this Zygmunt Bauman's "Liquid Modernity" ?

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