American liberalism is given broad and fundamental expression in Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence , which establishes that equality, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are essential to American politics and society. Two antinomies emerge from this document: the inherent tension ...
One way to come at this question is to look at the core idea of freedom within each perspective, and consider where the logic of that idea leads. At its core, if American freedom is to be valuable and good to people, then it ought to point them toward lives that are desirable and wo...
the Progressive policies are dependent upon people not adapting their behavior to work around the rules to pursue their own self-interest in spite of the new government dictates and regulations. If the working class isn’t willing to be dependent upon the government, Liberalism fails. Why else ...
against slavery. That isn’t “individual liberty” that is BS. In other words, they are willing to use state power (and thus not be classically liberal) to ensure social justice. When social liberalism is embraced by progressives like Bernie Sanders, we might call itAmerican democratic ...
Donald Trump is the first American president to regard liberal values with open contempt. He has company: the leaders of Italy, Hungary, Poland, and Turkey, among others, are also avowed illiberals. What happened? Why did liberalism lose the support it once enjoyed? In What Was Liberalism?,...
still most liberals preach the importance of the autonomous individual as the final judge of his (the masculine pronoun is no accident) own desires and interests, and a sovereign chooser. I would exactly reverse the second question: how could anyone in the “heyday” of liberalism in the New...
What is the American Party System? What is the Constitutional Union Party? What is the Unity Party? Discussion Comments ByOceanSwimmer— On Nov 11, 2010 @WaterHopper: Wallace had declared himself as a candidate for the Democratic presidential primaries. Wallace’s campaign had been going very we...
A proven solution to most of these ills is liberalism. For fifty years liberals governed this country, generating unprecedented prosperity, and making this the first solidly middle-class nation. If you want prosperity for the many-- and why should the many support any other goal?-- you need...
Caudillismo wasn't a sustainable political system for a number of reasons, mainly because its association with authoritarianism inherently generated opposition, and because it clashed with 19th-century ideals of liberalism, freedom of speech and a free-market economy. Caudillismo also continued the ...
President Jimmy Carter's deregulation of the airline industry in 1978 is an example of a neoliberal policy in action. The Airline Deregulation Act removed government control over fares, routes, and who could enter the market.3 Liberalism vs. Neoliberalism ...