My guest is Mathis Bitton. He is a student of political theory at Yale University. His writing focuses on liberalism and its discontents, Confucian and Islamic thought, city-states, and institution-building. You can follow him on Twitter at @mlbitton.

His recent piece, The Rise of Post-Liberal Man, sparked the conversation. You can read it here:

https://quillette.com/2021/07/22/the-rise-of-post-liberal-man/