'Liberty's' enemies don't have to be well read enough to have read Hume. They just have to accept the popularized premises of those who did.

Liberty's enemies aren't well read enough to have even heard of Hume. They pursue their dictatorships in their own self-interest ... at the expense of ours.

Thanks It is why I think Hume is potentially worse than Kant - he is more understandable.

Good point! I would bet that made writing the article difficult. Excellent content for the Gulch.

Probably because it is impossible to explain rationally a philosopher who is pushing irrationalism.

Where do you think they came from?

Really interesting. I will need to read a couple of more times. I wish I knew more about all this, but philosophy has always intimidated me; to be more accurate, most of it has seemed to be mush. But this was interesting.

But doesn't the philosophy that a society deems to be true have a big effect on that society, i.e., politics follows culture, which follows philosophy.

No, Hume was not even close to the foremost enemy of liberty. He is light years behind a long list of dictators. The enemies of liberty vastly outnumber liberty's proponents.