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What Ronald Reagan's Fusionist Politics Teach Us About Liberty, Virtue, and Their Limits

Fusionism holds that virtue and liberty are mutually reinforcing, and that neither is possible in any lasting or meaningful way without the other.

Stephanie Slade | Coming: From the July 2025 issue


A photo of Ronald Reagan smiling | Photo: Ronald Reagan, 1968; Keystone Press/Alamy
(Photo: Ronald Reagan, 1968; Keystone Press/Alamy)

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Stephanie Slade is a senior editor at Reason.

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