He thought, secondly, that liberalism fails if it cannot validate the universal need to belong.
The article's broader point was that liberalism of the American kind is contradictory for being anti-growth, anti-entrepreneur and anti-liberty.
These findings are remarkable given that liberalism is associated with reduced support for Israel in the broader American population.
Still, more than his recent predecessors, he is contemptuous of the idea that Liberalism and Labourism are natural partners whose separation in the early 20th century should now be reversed.
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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.
And he has told them that liberalism, privatisation and deregulation are to blame for Europe's crisis: France is now committed to the idea of sheltering behind the very barriers to enterprise that have made its economy uncompetitive.
After the horrors of the first world war, many people were convinced that another global conflict would unleash forces of barbarism that decaying liberalism would be powerless to resist and that the inevitable result would be the dawning of a new dark age.
He felt that modern liberalism was corroding the foundation of Western civilisation, no less.
But the president also understood that as liberalism became more fashionable among the young, so conservatism was gaining momentum as a counter-cultural force of its own.
But the fact that, eight years into an economic boom, only 37% of Americans claim to support free trade also suggests that economic liberalism would have a harder time surviving trial by recession there than it has in much of the rest of the world.
Indeed obesity is, and has long been, concentrated in those parts of America that are culturally conservative and strongly opposed to the big-government liberalism that Steyn so clearly loathes.
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That makes advocating liberalism a much harder thing for the region's democrats to do.
And it would remind other regions that democracy, liberalism and prosperity tend to go hand in hand.
No, fortunately the biggest loser here will be the paternalistic big government liberalism that Obama has foisted upon us.
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Mr Hoffman is the candidate for the Conservative Party of New York, an outfit founded in 1962 to rail against Rockefeller liberalism that dominated east coast Republicanism at the time.
His theological position hardened and he began to see a need to re-establish authority and direct the Church away from the excesses of liberalism that, in his view, followed the Second Vatican Council.
The irony is that modern American liberalism has become a movement grounded less in practical politics than a sort of religious fervor and often requiring the same strong faith in the face of disappointment and failure.
Uncompromising liberalism of that sort may never be seen again in American politics.
Pragmatic, socially minded liberalism of that kind underpinned American and British government, from the New Deal until Ronald Reagan, from Clement Attlee to Margaret Thatcher.
If these programs succeed, Democrats will have revitalized a core argument of modern American liberalism: that the federal government, primarily through spending and regulation, has to be the first responder when we face an economic crisis.
Berman, author of Terror and Liberalism, says that when fascism arose in Europe in the 1920s, '30s and '40s, similar movements cropped up in the Arab world.
But the sense of entitlement and righteousness that seems intrinsic to contemporary liberalism has been endorsed by the press and allows Democrats to play outside the rules.
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Reasons include the same factors of liberalism and race that will remain in play, the approach of the Republican opponent, and the erosion of quality political journalism that has sped up since 2008.
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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It would be too much to say that Mr Wellstone's quixotic liberalism was unique.
Mr Beinart points out that few other Jews have made liberalism such a central part of their identity.
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If we start now with European free zones, we could save the euro zone and return some much needed free market liberalism and optimism to that moribund continent.
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Poland and four other ex-communist countries tipped for membership by the European Commission Hungary, the Czech Republic, Estonia and Slovenia will be joining a more-liberal Union, and only 15 years or so after discarding a system that was the very antithesis of liberalism.
In his L.A. Times column, Jonah Goldberg wrote that Thatcher destroyed socialism rather than liberalism -- forcing Labour's Tony Blair to "to repudiate the party's century-long support for doctrinaire socialism and embrace the market" and U.S. Democrat Bill Clinton to follow suit.
This combination of compassionate liberalism and moralistic conservatism means that Latinos are natural allies neither of whites nor of blacks.
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