Focuses on the state of liberalism in the politics of the United States. Views that liberals may be down but by no means out; Views that great political movements do not die a sudden death; Survival of the ideas becau...
1.The state or quality of being liberal. 2. a.A political theory founded on the natural goodness of humans and the autonomy of the individual and favoring civil and political liberties, government by law with the consent of the governed, and protection from arbitrary authority. ...
Very often, populism is a threat to the idea of civil society understood as a concept integral to liberal political theory, as a means of balancing the state and its wider interlocutors. In this paper, various means, largely inspired by the writings of Tocqueville on the one hand and Paul...
To be sure, Christians in the Middle Ages professed that all people are born equal in the eyes of God, but this kind of equality was compatible in their eyes with great inequalities in life here on earth. What counted was the state of one's soul, not one's status in society. Yet ...
When we talk about liberty in a political context, the term refers to freedom from oppressive restraints imposed by the State. This includes freedom of speech, press, religion, and association. However, freedom has its own set of limitations, which means that you have liberty as long as you...
The ambitions of national rulers and the requirements of expanding industry and commerce led gradually to the adoption of economic policies based onmercantilism, a school of thought that advocated government intervention in a country’s economy to increase state wealth and power. However, as such int...
The influence of many of these ideas is still relatively weak, and there are concerns about growing restrictions on politically threatening views. But economists most influenced by liberalism have some role in public opinion, though less so in shaping public policy. Given the huge tasks ahead in ...
the world’s marketplace struggling to cross a border for a better wage. No sexism or racism is understood in this analysis which views immigration policy as the bogeyman. And another devastating example of the denial of sexual and racial violence: writing about the “paradox of pleasure and ...
In the European context, conservative liberalism should not be confused with liberal conservatism, which is a variant of conservatism combining conservative views with liberal policies in regards to the economy, social and ethical issues. 在歐洲,不要將保守自由主義與自由保守主義混淆,自由保守主義是在經...
The rise of populism in the West is often depicted as opposition to a “double liberalism”, which is economic and cultural in tandem. In this op