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Podcast: New Books in Human Rights
Episode: James E. Fleming and Linda C. McClain, âOrdered Liberty: Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtuesâ (Harvard UP, 2013)
Description: Many have argued in recent years that the U.S. constitutional system exalts individual rights over responsibilities, virtues, and the common good. Answering the charges against liberal theories of rights, James Fleming and Linda McClain develop and defend a civic liberalism that takes responsibilities and virtuesâas well as rightsâseriously. In Ordered Liberty: Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues (Harvard University Press, 2013), they provide an account of ordered liberty that protects basic liberties stringently, but not absolutely, and permits government to encourage responsibility and inculcate civic virtues without sacrificing personal autonomy to collective determination.The battle over same-sex marr...