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 because they represent the people's perc...
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. ...
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 ...
the state may notencroachif majoritarianism is to be meaningful. A majority verdict can come about only if individuals are free to some extent to exchange their views. This involves, beyond therightto speak and write freely, the freedom to associate and organize and, above all, freedom from ...
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 ...
Can a medical ethic be developed for a liberal state? This is the issue posed by the authors of both of the works under review. Brennan in Just Doctoring thinks that the answer is yes and that his theory of just doctoring provides just such an ethic. Emanuel in The Ends of Human Life...
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 ...
“All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state,” barked its Founding Father Benito Mussolini. Fools and maniacs advocate absolute government to this day. Because their ideology is based on postmodernism, they hope to achieve it by manipulating language. This is why...
Marxconsideredthestateasitdevel-;;-;~r;;;irt;aa;wi;’aa;pioneersinthetheoryofrentseeking.5Forthesereasons,IthInkItisworthwhilebrieflytosketchtheviewsoftheseliberals.ClassConflictTheoryandtheFrenchIdoctrineIndustrlaiisme.’°ThegreatestInfluenceontheIndustrialistswasJean-BaptisteSay.Say(1815,p.14)heldthat...
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...