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John Quincy Adams was the last of his kind - a Puritan from the age of the Founders who despised party and compromise yet dedicated himself to politics and government. The son of John Adams, he was a brilliant ambassador and secretary of state, a frustrated president at a historic turning point in American politics, and a dedicated congressman who literally died in office - at the age of 80, in the House of Representatives, in the midst of an impassioned political debate.

Donald Trump is the first American president to regard liberal values with open contempt. He has company: the leaders of Italy, Hungary, Poland, and Turkey, among others, are also avowed illiberals. What happened? Why did liberalism lose the support it once enjoyed? In What Was Liberalism?, James Traub returns to the origins of liberalism, in the aftermath of the American and French revolutions and in the works of such great thinkers as John Stuart Mill and Isaiah Berlin.

The Journey Inward is a podcast for men who are ready to begin an exploration of their inner landscape. Rather than discuss what’s going on in the world-at-large, we focus on what’s going on in your world–the world of emotions, feelings, needs, values, goals, and desires. As you’ll discover in these episodes, your experience of the people and the world around you is a reflection of what’s going on inside of you. My goal with this podcast is simply to bring forward new concepts and ideas that will help you to explore, understand, and cultivate a more peaceful and balanced inner state,...