Classical liberalism loves appealing to reason, to idealized rationalism. A quirky consequences of this is that they generally think it’s fine to be motivated by idiosyncratic religious beliefs, as long as in the public sphere (classical liberalism also loves “the public sphere”) you present publicly accesible arguments. The idea is it doesn’t really matter what your private motivations are for supporting a particular position or policy because there is a single Truth that we can all arrive at [...] Continue reading ➠