Liberalism at war?

People are tired of aggressive liberalism.

Economic liberalism came first, political liberalism later.

Despite communism s collapse, assaults on liberalism remain.

So, we were lectured liberalism is no solution for developing countries.

In my youth, my liberalism was absolute, but as I ve aged and become responsible for my family, children, and parents that liberalism has been walled off from the big and noisy world.

If one is looking for an abstract principle to follow on questions of immigration, liberalism cannot provide it.

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In 1971, a very representative part of the economical elite of Guatemala chose right wing liberalism as its political project.

His values, ideas, purposes everything he espouses constitute an assault on all that liberalism stands for.

Similarly, whereas much autonomy has been extended to local governments in economic and social development, the central government has kept its grip on the direction of policy by maintaining the power to appoint local party and government officials. In short, the Chinese model reflects a combination of pragmatism, liberalism, and market competition, but with a strong dose of state intervention.

It is no accident that liberal ideas emerged in the 16th and 17th centuries, when bloody sectarian struggles between Christian sects throughout Europe exposed the impossibility of a religious consensus on which to base political rule.

But before we endorse the idea of an irreducible clash of civilizations, we should consider why modern secular liberalism arose in the West in the first place.

When Marxists were strong and liberalism weak, writers, politicians, political parties, and newspapers often told us democracy is unimportant for the Third World.

Unlike in the English speaking world, liberalism has never been really popular on the European continent, and the conservatives have always appealed to the patriotic and religious feelings of their supporters.

Clearly, liberalism may be a contributing factor, if and where it is primitively understood to entail for the individual no countervailing obligations before society.

There is also the liberalism of José Manuel de la Sota, who steered the indebted province of Córdoba and who is President Eduardo Duhalde's dauphin.

Clearly, the belief that liberalism is at fault for declining birth rates and dysfunctional families has gained currency in the West, which now produces popular books like Pat Buchanan s

But then Bellamy stretches liberalism too far, saying that a similar peace can be achieved in debates over even bitterly divisive subjects like abortion.

What America and the West do or did in the past is irrelevant to radical Islamics, what matters are the West's heretical liberalism, individualism, and secularism.

Liberalism, of course, has faced enemies before Schmitt among them, for, as Hitler's Crown Jurist, he was among those who posed as irreconcilable foes of Weimar liberalism.

TED Fellow and journalist Evgeny Morozov punctures what he calls iPod liberalism the assumption that tech innovation always promotes freedom, democracy with chilling examples of ways the Internet helps oppressive regimes stifle dissent.

Clearly, the belief that liberalism is at fault for declining birth rates and dysfunctional families has gained currency in the West, which now produces popular books like Pat Buchanan sThe Death of the West.

As rising authoritarian powers, China or Russia, for example, have no reason to use their growing international influence to promote democracy on the contrary, they increasingly counterbalance the efforts of Western countries to promote political liberty.

Each in his inimitable way displayed the contrariness both loved and loathed in intellectuals Aron fancied Anglo American liberalism before it became fashionable, while Sartre remained a Communist sympathiser after the fashion had passed.