In this interview, Stephen J. Macedo, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values, and Director of the University Center for Human Values, at Princeton University, critically discusses some of the main lines of criticism addressed to contemporary liberal political theory and develops further a liberal conception of civic education presented in his book Diversity and Distrust. The main issues addressed in the interview present a detailed and well-documented critique of the hands-off stance toward diversity of the ‘politics of difference’ and articulate a pervasive defense of the project of ‘civic liberalism’ that supports a liberal agenda for civic education, necessary to sustain our liberal democratic regimes.