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20 unusual facts about liberalism


Alec Peterson

Peterson is said to have shaped the entire educational philosophy of the IBO, basing it on his own humanist and liberal beliefs on the concept of education.

Armand de Pontmartin

In the Assemblée nationale he published his Causeries litteraires, a series of attacks on prominent Liberals, which created some sensation.

Cahiers de doléances

Many of them proved to be quite liberal in their opinions, 89% voting that they were willing to give up their financial privileges.

Daan Samson

According to some critics he takes a cynical stance, bearing resemblance to a right‑wing liberal argument.

Edward Tyll

A political independent, with a libertarian and liberal bent, Tyll gained notoriety when he briefly replaced conservative host Larry Elder on KABC (AM) Los Angeles.

History of Morocco

Gradual political reforms in the 1990s resulted in the establishment of a bicameral legislature in 1997, and with the death of King Hassan II of Morocco in 1999, the more liberal-minded Crown Prince Sidi Mohammed, who assumed the title of Mohammed VI, took the throne.

Human Be-In

The Human Be-In focused the key ideas of the 1960s counterculture: personal empowerment, cultural and political decentralization, communal living, ecological awareness, higher consciousness (with the aid of psychedelic drugs), acceptance of illicit drug use, and radical liberal political consciousness.

Jan Backus

A moderate-to-liberal Democrat, Backus ran for the U.S. Senate in 1994 and beat Douglas M. Costle, Environmental Protection Agency administrator under President Jimmy Carter, for her party's nomination and came within 9 points of ousting incumbent U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords (R-VT).

Jhabal Kalan

He was one of the three Chaudharys of Majha of Patti Parganah during the rule of Akbar, a liberal and secular Mughal ruler from 1556-1605.

Karl Heinrich Bruggerman

Karl Heinrich Brüggermann (1810–1887) German by birth, Brüggermann became a journalist of moderate liberal beliefs.

KVI

At first, the station used the slogan "the balanced alternative" with a lineup alternating liberal and conservative talk hosts, but in 1993, KVI dropped all its liberal hosts except Mike Siegel.

Lewis Call

Call critiques liberal notions of language, consciousness, and rationality from an anarchist perspective, arguing that they are inherent in economic and political power within the capitalist state organization.

Liberal corporatism

Liberal corporatism refers to the application of economic corporatism by liberal political parties and organizations, that recognizes the bargaining interests of multiple groups within society, such as in the business, labour, and agricultural sectors and licenses them to engage in bargaining over economic policy with the state.

Liberalize

Liberalism, a broad array of related ideas and theories of government that advocate individual liberty.

Saxony state election, 2009

Minister-President Georg Milbradt was unable to form a government with his preferred coalition partner, the liberal FDP, but he was able to keep his office after entering into a grand coalition with the center-left (SPD).

Seward, Minneapolis

Seward is one of the most politically liberal neighborhoods in Minneapolis, with usually only a handful of votes in each precinct cast for Republicans.

Svinninge Municipality

Its last mayor was Søren Christensen, representing Venstre, Denmark's Liberal Party.

The Gates of Saturn

In a Christmas show, Dale dressed as Adolf Hitler shouted the first lines to ever appear in the show, with the words "Achtung Juden!", which caused outrage and shock in what was still a liberal television age;

Warren Steibel

Although the liberal Steibel was not always in accord with Buckley's conservative political beliefs, the two had an amicable and creative working relationship, and produced one of the longest-running television programs in the history of PBS.

WRFN-LP

The station features a mix of music, talk and public affairs programming, almost all with a decidedly liberal or leftist political perspective largely not found on other area media outlets (local or national).


1985 Governor General's Awards

Michael D. Behiels, Prelude to Quebec's Quiet Revolution: Liberalism versus Neo-nationalism

A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq

Hitchens shifted his opinion to "neutral", saying: "It's absurd for liberals to talk as if Kristallnacht is impending with Bush, and it's unwise and indecent for Republicans to equate Kerry with capitulation. There's no one to whom he can surrender, is there? I think that the nature of the jihadist enemy will decide things in the end".

Adam Müller

His position in political economy is defined by his strong opposition to Adam Smith's system of materialistic-liberal (so-called classical) political economy, or the so-called industry system.

Americans for Democratic Action

The UDA was formed by former members of the Socialist Party of America and Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies as well as labor union leaders, liberal politicians, theologians, and others who were opposed to the pacifism adopted by most left-wing political organizations in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Arthur Vivian

Liberalism in West Cornwall: The 1868 Election Papers of A Pendarves Vivian MP edited and introduced by Edwin Jaggard; Devon & Cornwall Record Society, New Series Volume 42, 2000 ISBN 0-901853-42-9

Barczewo

In the 19th century with the rise of liberalism, nationalism and Otto von Bismarcks Kulturkampf repressions and Germanisation against Poles as well as organised resistance by Polish population followed.

Christian Mejdahl

Christian Mejdahl (born 31 December 1939 at Tverå in the Faroe Islands) is a Danish politician representing the liberal party, Venstre.

Congress for Progressive Change

The party advocates political liberalism, as originated by the American philosopher, John Rawls.

Constitution of the Year VIII

This was no longer Robespierre's Republic, which was more radical, or the oligarchic liberal Republic of the Directory, but the autocratic Roman Republic of Caesar Augustus, a Conservative Republic, which reminded the French of stability, order, and peace.

Dee D. Drell

Though Drell is considered a conservative Republican – he donated $300 to defeated GOP congressional candidate Clyde C. Holloway even after Bush tendered the nomination – he drew the praise of one of the Senate's most liberal members, Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont.

Fascism

The "Fascist left" included Michele Bianchi, Giuseppe Bottai, Angelo Oliviero Olivetti, Sergio Panunzio and Edmondo Rossoni, who were committed to advancing national syndicalism as a replacement for parliamentary liberalism in order to modernize the economy and advance the interests of workers and the common people.

Ferdinando Bartolommei

From the beginning of the revolutionary movement Bartolommei was always an ardent Liberal, and although belonging to an old and noble Florentine family his sympathies were with the democratic party rather than with the moderately liberal aristocracy.

George Mosse

Critics pointed out that he had made Lord Chief Justice George Coke, the chief character of his book The Struggle for Sovereignty in England (1950), into a liberal long before liberalism had come into existence.

Groupement de recherche et d'études pour la civilisation européenne

The publication of GRECE feature many articles on political philosophy, taking a lead from such authors as Carl Schmitt, Julien Freund, Vilfredo Pareto, Ernst Jünger, and ideologies such as communism, nationalism and liberalism.

Hamra Street

Pulitzer Prize winner and Los Angeles Times journalist Borzou Daragahi described the street as a "bastion of liberalism that embraces multiple religions and political views amid sectarian conflict".

Heinrich von Treitschke

He had outgrown his early Liberalism and become the chief panegyrist of the House of Hohenzollern.

Inclusive Democracy

According to Arran Gare, Towards an Inclusive Democracy "offers a powerful new interpretation of the history and destructive dynamics of the market and provides an inspiring new vision of the future in place of both neo-liberalism and existing forms of socialism".

John Prince-Smith

John Prince-Smith (London, January 20, 1809–Berlin, February 3, 1874) was an English-born, German free trade liberal and politician.

Karol Libelt

Karol Libelt (8 April 1807, Poznań, Grand Duchy of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Confederation - 9 June 1875, Brdowo) was a Polish philosopher, writer, political and social activist, social worker and liberal, nationalist politician, president of the PTPN.

Leslie Marshall

Leslie Marshall has been a liberal radio talk host since 1988 and a commentator on national television since 2001.

Liberalism in Austria

Liberalism in Austria reached its peak at the time of the 1848 revolution, when civil liberty and a written constitution for the Austrian Empire were key demands of the revolutionary movement.

Liberalism in Iran

Thanks to the recent discovery and translations of the dominant schools of liberal thought in the Anglo-American world, as found in the works of Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls and Karl Popper, and an appreciation of older liberal traditions (Kantian, Millian or Lockean), a new trend of liberalism has appeared among the younger generation of Iranian intellectuals.

Louis Casartelli

His appeal was rejected and he wrote to Abbot Francis Aidan Gasquet O.S.B. "if the wish did not sound rather an impiety one could almost desire that Cardinal Gotti might have held me suspect of Liberalism and other dreadful things" (1 September 1903).

Ludwig Windthorst

Influenced by the rise of liberalism during the Vormärz era and the 1832 Hambach Festival as well as by the Catholic theologian Georg Hermes, Windthorst tried to bring his Catholic confession in accordance with the ideals of liberty, civil rights and national unity.

Metz family

This second generation included Auguste Metz, Charles Metz, and Norbert Metz, who were all leading liberal politicians during the early stages of Luxembourg's independence, in the mid-nineteenth century.

Opera Nazionale Balilla

Nationalists in the years after the war thought of themselves as combating the both liberal and domineering institutions created by cabinets such as those of Giovanni Giolitti, including traditional schooling.

Pedro Goyena

Shortly before his death, and carried by his opposition to secular liberalism, he joined the heterogeneous opposition represented by the Unión Cívica.

Politics of Valledupar

Relatively prompt to political violence the politics of Valledupar have been divided between periods of political instability and periods of relatively political stability along a hegemony between the Colombian Liberal Party and the Colombian Liberal Party following ideals of Colombian Liberalism and Conservatism respectively.

Popes during the Age of Revolution

The pope's primary purpose was to obtain confirmation of the position he had taken in his Syllabus of Errors (1864), condemning a wide range of positions associated with rationalism, liberalism, and materialism.

Post-democracy

The LSE academic further developed the idea in an article called 'Is there a liberalism beyond social democracy?' for the think tank Policy Network and in his subsequent book 'The Strange Non-Death of Neo-Liberalism'.

The Negro Family: The Case For National Action

Sam Tanenhaus wrote that Moynihan's fights with the New Left over the report were a signal that Great Society liberalism now had political challengers both from the right and from the left.

Željko Ivanović

He was a founder and one of the editors of the first Montenegrin political magazine Krug (1990) that promoted values of open society, democracy, and liberalism while nationalism was advancing in a dissolving SFRJ.

Zhu Xueqin

An interview with him entitled "For a Chinese Liberalism" is published in the book One China, Many Paths.