Liberal thought and thinkers
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‘Reluctant’ or Liberal collectivists?
The social liberalism of John Maynard Keynes and William Beveridge, 1922-1945.
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Intelligent Liberalism
Review of Conrad Russell, An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Liberalism (Duckworth, 1999).
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Thomas Paine
What was the impact of Thomas Paine on Liberalism and liberal thought?
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The Rainbow Circle and the New Liberalism
Examination of the role of a little-known radical group in the 1890s in the evolution of the Liberal and Labour parties.
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The origins of community politics
How did the Liberal Party come to adopt a strategy of community politics in 1970? This article traces the origins of the concept from the New, or Social, Liberalism of Thomas Hill Green, through Jo Grimond’s leadership of the Liberal Party, to the counter-culture of the 1960s.
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Think Liberal: The Dictionary of Liberal Thought
‘If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.’ Locke, Bentham, Mill, Hobhouse, Keynes, Rawls … Liberalism has been built on more than three centuries work of political thinkers and writers, and the aspirations of countless human beings who have fought for freedom, democracy, the rule of law and open…
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John Stuart Mill and the Liberal Party
Analysis of the impact of the Victorian Liberal philosopher on his party.
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Liberal thought
Review of Kevin Hickson (ed.), The Political Thought of the Liberals and Liberal Democrats since 1945 (Manchester University Press, 2009).
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Philosopher of freedom
Wilhelm von Humboldt and early German Liberalism.