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Yascha Mounk sits down with Francis Fukuyama to discuss the balance between individual freedom and mutual obligation.

Liberals are accused of championing absolute autonomy at the expense of tradition and community. How can they respond in a credible and appealing way? What is the correct balance between individual freedom and mutual obligation—and who decides?

The Foreign Policy Institute is delighted to collaborate with Persuasion to organize this event as part of their series on Liberal Virtues and Values. This series, made possible with the generous support of the John Templeton Foundation, aims to make the case that liberalism has its own distinctive set of virtues and values that are capable not only of responding to the dissatisfaction that drives authoritarianism, but also of restoring faith in liberalism as an ideology worth believing in—and defending—on its own terms.