Professor Richard Logan, joins host Steve Francisco in this episode for an engaging and thought-provoking conversation about the state of civil society in America and the tension between individualism and individual rights versus the recognition of responsibilities we owe each other as members of a community.
Richard describes himself as a social anthropologist who sees a growing imbalance between assertions of rights and a declining sense of responsibilities. He traces his concern for promoting communitarian values back to early American history in his native New England, where the town hall became a model of small-scale democracy at work.
The discussion also touches upon Richard’s time in Kenya and his observations about the cultural contrasts with advanced industrial societies, such as the US.
