In the era of “post-truth” it has become common to link a crisis of scientific authority with a crisis of liberalism. Democracies around the world are under threat, this reasoning goes, in part because of an attack on scientific truth. But what does liberalism – as political culture and as a form of governance – need (or want) from science?
Watch our conversation with Isabel Gabel, post-doctoral researcher at the University of Chicago’s Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, and explore this question through a multi-disciplinary examination of the relationship between science and liberalism.
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