Authentic German Liberalism of the 19th Century
In this essay, liberalism will be understood to mean the doctrine which holds that society - that is, the social order minus the state - more or less runs itself, within the bounds of assured individual rights. In the classical statement, these ... [... more]
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Freedom's Power: The True Force of Liberalism
 The Grownups Speak (at long last): The greatest weakness of this book is also its greatest strength. Full of resentful fury at the ideologically based incompetence, irresponsibility, and felonious assaults on constitutional liberty that characterize the [... more]
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On the Term "Liberalism"
Those who are familiar with the writings on the subject of liberalism that have appeared in the last few years and with current linguistic usage will perhaps object that what has been called liberalism in the present volume does not coincide with ... [... more]
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Pascal Salin on Liberalism
Pascal Salin is professor of economics at the University of Paris-Dauphine, adjunct scholar of the Mises Institute, and the author of many books on macroeconomics and public policy. His new book is Liberalisme (Paris: Editions Odile Jacob, 2000; ... [... more]
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Liberalism: True and False
Bill Clinton has been the kind of politician folks refer to as a centrist, meaning by this that no one can really tell where he stands -- he follows the polls, period, and this gives him no core, only a style of flexibility. Bill Clinton can ... [... more]
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Lincoln and Bismarck: Enemies of Liberalism
Ludwig von Mises was born in 1881, when the Prussian autocrat Otto von Bismarck was at the height of his power, and in his book Abraham Lincoln is incorrectly remembered as a man in the Jeffersonian tradition and as the restorer of liberty, while ... [... more]
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A Future of Genuine Liberalism
Instead, I want to briefly describe the fatal errors that continue to keep genuine liberalism at bay in our own time. Let me begin by pointing to a fact which is often overlooked: the entire world, and especially Europe, continue to suffer from ... [... more]
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Liberalism vs. Fascism
Fascism differs from its close cousins, Communism and aristocratic conservatism, in several important ways. To understand these differences is to see how classical liberalism offers a completely different view of social and economic organization, ... [... more]
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The Virtues of Liberalism
Interesting corrective to "rights" culture: In a series of essays the author challenges the notion that historically the American polity is best described as rights-bearing individuals pursuing self-interests to the exclusion of other social [... more]
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The End of Reform : New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
Insightful: This book is really fundamental for understanding both the New Deal and the Liberal tradition it engendered. The book's title evokes two prior famous books; Hofstader's The Age of Reform and Lowi's End of Liberalism. Brinkley positioned this [... more]
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Utilitarianism and the New Liberalism (Ideas in Context)
Book Description: Weinstein argues that nineteenth-century English New Liberalism was considerably more indebted to classical English utilitarianism than the received view holds. T. H. Green, L. T. Hobhouse, D. G. Ritchie and J. A. Hobson were liberal [... more]
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Liberalism and Its Discontents
Amazon.com Review: Noted historian, professor at Columbia University, and winner of the American Book Award for History, Alan Brinkley has collected 17 essays written over the past two decades for Liberalism and Its Discontents. The assembled essays [... more]
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