Liberal thought and thinkers
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The myth of New Liberalism
Continuity and change in Liberal politics, 1889-1914.
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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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Greatest of the Liberal philosophers
Review of Richard Reeves, John Stuart Mill, Victorian Firebrand (Atlantic Books, 2007).
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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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Thomas Paine
What was the impact of Thomas Paine on Liberalism and liberal thought?
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John Stuart Mill’s ‘On Liberty’ 150 years later
An analysis of the most well-known work of the greatest of the Victorian Liberal philosophers, published 150 years ago this year, and an assessment of its relevance to 2009.