Governor HALEY BARBOUR (Republican, Mississippi): You should not misread this election as the country voting for liberalism.
But the fact that Gore sees Al Jazeera as a good match for his brand of American liberalism speaks volumes about the nature of that set of beliefs.
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Friedman called for a new liberalism, seeing himself as the heir to Adam Smith, the 18th-century defender of the individual.
France has long wanted more decisions taken by the euro zone, which is smaller and excludes some loud voices for free-market liberalism, such as Britain and several Nordic and ex-communist countries.
Too often of late, that liberalism has been expressed as a mere plea for economic efficiency, a technical claim that, justified or not, appears to ignore all that is human.
His course makes the problems of liberalism worse and more urgent, as though he is eager for a crisis.
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The first is what seems to have inspired Len McCluskey, the General Secretary of the country's biggest union, Unite, to describe Labour's economic policy as "a victory for discredited Blairism... the last gasp of neo liberalism" which was dragging the party into "the swamp of bond market orthodoxy".
In fact, treating each applicant for a job or a university place as an individual goes to the heart of liberalism.
Neither had much time for America or the free market: Mr Chirac once denounced ultra-liberalism as the new communism.
As you might expect, the idea has not gone down very well in the US, where the view that government might be a force for good in society and that it should be properly funded is seen by many as dangerous liberalism verging on communism.
Nurtured in the atmosphere of committed liberalism generated by the New Deal, and by such musicians as Aaron Copland, for whom artistic progress and the formation of an authentically American artistic identity were inseparable from ideas of social change, Bernstein developed quickly into an able spokesman for American cosmopolitan progressivism's short-lived ascendancy.
National Review was the vehicle for nurturing serious conservative writers and intellectuals at a time when liberalism was ascendant and conservatism was viewed as outdated, xenophobic and anti-Semitic.
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