Liberal thought and thinkers
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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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Reformulating Liberalism
Review of L. T. Hobhouse, Liberalism and Other Writings, edited by James Meadowcroft (Cambridge University Press, 1994).
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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.
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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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Philosopher of freedom
Wilhelm von Humboldt and early German Liberalism.
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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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T. H. Green: Forgotten Liberal?
Arguments for T. H. Green as the greatest British Liberal.