What are your concerns with liberalism and why do you argue in this piece that it must be saved anyway?

Any self-hating liberal like me would think that liberalism has a lot of problems, but it still deserves to be saved.

So some of the problems, I'm really interested in human nature.

That's been one of the core areas of my work in philosophy, is understanding human nature from a social and a moral perspective.

And I think liberalism, with its focus on the individual, can overlook some of the importance of our social identity and the need for community connections and meaning and shared meaning and giving up some of our autonomy to belong to a group that is larger than us.

I think that is a legitimate concern.

I think neoliberalism has also gone too far.

What is your message to those people? people who maybe they don't, in so many words, want to get rid of liberalism, but who are abdicating to overthrow the system that we have?