Moving from Liberalism 4.0 to Liberalism 5.0

Fox's Adam Shapiro interviews Walter Russell Mead about the coming public-pension meltdown. It's a fairly long video, but very worth your time if you're interested in this sort of thing.

Mead's point about yesterday's liberals becoming today's conservatives is a good one, and one that not enough people really appreciate. It's become au courant to refer to modern conservatism as "classical liberalism", and we are now encountering the spectacle of the radical New Left of the 1960's desperately trying to conserve (note the word) the status quo.

Mead is optimistic that America can re-invent itself yet again and take advantage of technology to make government at all levels work better and for less money. I doubt that this is the case -- a century's worth of untrammeled growth of government at all levels argues against it -- but we shall see.

As for the government's ability to leverage technology to improve delivery of services....

posted by Monty at 10:07 AM

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