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A free society depends on certain principles, and Western thinkers—including many "dead white males"—played a major role in their development

[This article is adapted from a lecture delivered at the Reno Mises Circle in Reno, Nevada.

While in many ways their careers ran parallel to each other, the two philosophers disagreed about whether liberalism could—and should—be saved?

Statue of Liberty in the Champ-de-Mars. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection / Getty) “Give us liberty and give them death,” said David Duke at a rally for the Ku Klux Klan in Baton Rouge, La., in 1975. His thunderous words were a play on the famous quotation from Patrick Henry, “Give me liberty or give me death.” Henry’s statement was intended to express his commitment to the well-known American ideal of freedom, which he and his peers took to be at stake in their forthcoming revolutionary struggle with the British Empire. But when Duke gave this speech as the Grand Dragon of the Knights of ...

Charles W. Mills. (Photo by Sam Alcoff) Arguably no contemporary scholar has thought more deeply about how liberalism as a political tradition and philosophy has been historically and structurally biased towards the socioeconomic interests of white people than the political philosopher Charles W. Mills. In works such as The Racial Contract and Black Rights/White Wrongs, he has sought to show the reality of an ongoing system of white domination in which liberalism—both as a philosophy and as a system of governance—is complicit. Mills traces the problem back to the origins of modern libe...