Week 2: Liberalism in General
A Liberal Liberal Society? USA
American Pharoah jockey Victor Espinoza hoists the 2015 Kentucky Derby Trophy;
owner Ahmed Zayat on left, in pinstripes, with raised fist
(EquiSport Photos; fair use)
A Traditionalist Liberal Society? England
(Royal Ascot, Financial Times blog; fair use)
Week 2. Liberalism: The Dominant Ideology of the Modern World
Andrew Heywood, “Liberalism,” Modern Political Ideologies, pp. 23-64
Stephen Holmes, “The Liberal Idea,” Passions and Constraint: On the Theory of Liberal Democracy (UChicago Press, 1995): 13-41
Michael Walzer, “Liberalism and the Art of Separation,” Political Theory 12 (1984): 315-330
So you'd like to see a 21st-century liberal outlook on the world...
Check out The New York Times or The Economist or listen to NPR (formerly National Public Radio).
So you'd like to know about the international organization of liberal political parties (Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal Democrats UK, Free Democratic Party of Germany)...
So you'd like to learn about a political party that tries to bring social, classical, and neo-liberalism into one broad tent...
So you'd like to see a statement of principles that almost all liberals (classical, social, and neo-) support...
1947 Oxford Manifesto of the Liberal International
So you'd like a good overview of the main ambitions, doctrines, and development of liberalism from the 17th to the 19th century...
Listen to this recording of Bertrand Russell, "Philosophical Liberalism," from his great History of Western Philosophy (1945)
So you'd like to see how liberalism was adopted in non-European cultures...
Listen to "The Rise and Fall of Arab Liberalism," presented by Tarek Osman (2013)
So you'd like a mostly celebratory history of liberalism...
Check out Edmund Fawcett, Liberalism: The Life of an Idea (Princeton UP, 2014)
So you'd like a history of liberalism's dark underbelly...
Check out Domenico Losurdo, Liberalism: A Counter-History (Verso 2014)