Leszek Kołakowski proposed that we should all become conservative-liberal-socialists.20 I see his lopsided smile in my mind’s eye as I recall his provocative formulation, but the idea is a serious one. To regard freedom as central is liberal. The conviction that freedom is about virtues is conservative. The belief that structures gird values is socialist. These three approaches to politics are perfectly justified and complementary. They do not succeed in isolation. If they work at all, they work together.
