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Phil Munoz

Phil Munoz

Tocqueville Professor of Political Science and Concurrent Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, and Founding Director of the Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government.

Aug 9, 2026

2:50
So why don't you, Phil, start out and give us your thumbnail definition of what is meant by liberalism when we're talking about it in these terms?
2:58
Yeah.
2:58
Well, thanks for having me on.
3:00
I'm no substitute for John Yoo.
3:03
And I love listening to the show, as you know.
3:06
So it's real fun for me to be on.
3:11
You ask, what do I mean by liberalism? I mean, the term different people use the term in different ways.

13 MINS LATER

16:26
Yeah,
16:11
Okay.
16:12
So but Steve's question was, original question is, you know, what is the common good, and I, and I used the football team as an example.
16:18
And, and here...
16:21
A- and then Linda, Linda points us to s- another dimension.
16:23
So my first point is on Steve's, my second point is, is on Lucretia here.
16:27
The first point is the football team clearly has a common good.
16:32
Like, there's a purpose.

31 MINS LATER

47:32
[laughs] Right.

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