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Liberalism By definition, a liberal is one who believes in liberty, but because different people at different times have meant different things by liberty, "liberalism" is correspondingly ambiguous. The word was first heard in a political...
Liberalism as a theory about politics and society upholds freedoms of belief, inquiry, expression, action, association and elections. In liberalism, freedom coalesces with value-commitments to equality, individualism, toleration, pluralism, and...
Liberalism refers to a broad array of related ideas and theories of government that consider individual liberty to be the most important political goal.[1] Liberalism has its roots in the Western Age of Enlightenment. Broadly speaking, liberalism...
In the 19th century, liberals worked to limit the role of government in economic matters, under the banner of free trade, laissez-faire, and the rights of property and contract. But around the turn of the century, in England and America, liberalism changed its course....
I. Introduction Did late eighteenth-century Americans ever consider themselves liberal? To many historians, this will seem a strange question. The concept of liberalism is widely held to be a nineteenth-century innovation, and therefore to inquire whether Americans in the previous century thought of...
We've never quite figured out where to place Mike Bloomberg on the ideological spectrum. He's not any of the usual New York categories: social liberal/fiscal conservative, for example, or white-ethnic conservative, or Manhattan Liberal. He's got some of the New York City Partnership's brand of...
Having chided Steve Minarik for a ridiculous attack on the Drum Major Institute, I can't avoid mocking Drum Major's response as well. Andrea Batista Schlesinger, who (not Freddy Ferrer) actually runs Drum Major, posted her response to Minarik on the Hollywood liberal organ Huffington Post,...
Compares the social programs of Democratics and Republicians and gives a personal insight into which program has performed better in history. Are the social programs of liberals the downfall of America? Or is the sheer ignorance of the conservatives about the "un-rich"? These issues are examined in this essay.
Conservatives advocate minimal government economical intervention reduced individual rights, non-charitable welfare programs, and a determination to remain loyal to sometimes outdated tradition. Liberals support an active state and federal government, individual freedom, efforts to aid the disadvantaged, and the forward mobility and progress of society.
