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This reminds me of the discussion with Bari Weiss, Patrick Deneen and Bret Stephens you referenced recently. Is love "anti-liberal"? If you think of societies that don't do as "good a job at liberalism," you probably think of ones where tribalism—group and family loyalty—take precedence over national identity. Liberal societies (as I think of them) tend to weaken familial/tribal bonds in favor of both more individual freedom and more national/societal conformity...which sounds a lot like Deneen's argument in "Why Liberalism Failed." So is love a way of constraining liberalism, limiting its impact?

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