Another outstanding podcast! However, Professor Deneen is simply wrong. He is using a straw man to define classical liberalism by only focusing on individual freedoms. The intellectual heritage of our founding is much richer, and the maintenance of our social fabric through strong mediating institutions is inseparable from freedom. In fact, they are presented as inseparable (hence John Adams' statement that the Constitution is unsuitable for a nonreligious people). The malaise of our culture is not due to the success of the liberal project, but rather the failure of our mediating institutions to sustain the liberal order. It is very possible that we will have to relinquish more of our freedoms over time because our culture lacks the character to sustain it. This would be a failure of the liberal project, not the result of its success.