The Open Society, With J.McKenzie Alexander

Hamza King sits down with J. McKenzie Alexander to discuss the Open Society. Jason is a Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Jason is the author of ‘The Open Society as an Enemy: A critique of how free societies turned against themselves’ (2025) and several other books, including ‘The Structural Evolution of Morality’ (2007) and ‘Evolutionary Game Theory’ (2023).

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