The Origins of Individual Rights

Liberalism is under attack. The Right wants to "own the Libs,"
and the Left wants to disown them. Yet individualism is the basis
of human and civil rights. The individual is the primary social
unit in Liberal thought. In this era of tribalism, recognizing
individual rights may be exactly what we need.  We are
exposed to a great deal of propaganda designed to divide the
nation. A focus on individual rights protected by the
Constitution can bring us together again. We must rebuild the
Liberal middle so we can win elections in the future.
 Author, Attorney, and Activist Rich Procida will overview
the origins of Western Liberalism and the importance of defending
the Constitution and Liberal democracy. He will rely on historian
and political philosopher Larry Seidentop's book "Inventing the
Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism." While Marxist
scholars, like Angela Davis, describe individualism as
"insidious," without the individual, we have no rights.
 Join our discussion as we ask whether individual rights and
liberties are essential to freedom, or whether the rights of the
individual undermine group rights and social justice.