Liberalism

Why Secular Liberalism Always Creates Contradiction – U.S. and EU Top Offenders
Liberalism is having its day on a global scale. The United States is only a notch behind Europe in becoming the second great home for the liberalisms gray soup where all absolutism is dissolved into the giant pot of tolerance and diversity. It promises to feed the world but it is un-palatable under the strong light of truth.

An Obligation to Future Generations?
Critique of the communitarian/liberalism debate.

Globalization - Liberalism's Disastrous Gamble
The prominent ideologues of liberal democracy have committed a grave error by linking themselves inextricably with the doctrine of freemarketry and the emerging new order of globalization.

Above All, This Was a Vote Against Neoliberalism
Bereft of leaders with a convincing programme, Germans have started a realignment of the political spectrum. Sunday's election shows they want an alternative. Jonathan Steele

The Limits of Liberalism
Jonathan Freedland: We need to be honest with ourselves that principles of freedom of speech and respect for minorities can collide.

Socialism is Dead. Long Live Liberalism and Social Justice
John Locke is a prophet for our times, largely ignored in his own land. Back in February, the German foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, did one of those things that help to mark him as one of the most interesting politicians of our age and continent.

Sam Vaknin: Islam and Liberalism
Islam is not merely a religion. It is also - and perhaps, foremost - a state ideology. It is all-pervasive and missionary. It permeates every aspect of social cooperation and culture. It is an organizing principle, a narrative, a philosophy, a value system, and a vade mecum. In this it resembles Confucianism and, to some extent, Hinduism.

Blasts at Liberal 'traitors' Win Us Book War
Big publishers cash in as right-wing polemics sell in their thousands. Two large American publishers are to launch off-shoots to capitalise on the latest literary phenomenon gripping the United States: the right-wing diatribe.

Liberalism Lies Dying
Britain is turning in on itself as insecurity, fuelled by war and decline, grips the nation. The potential victims of the war on terrorism are easy to imagine, impossible to number.

Israeli liberalism may not be dead. But it needs a lot of help
Aqraba is an Arab village on the west bank of the Jordan River. These stony hills formed the heartland of the Jewish tribes in biblical times. Here they picked their olives, just as the Palestinians would today, if they could. But they cannot, because modern Jews, settled in the hills around them, won't let them.

Daniel in a Den of Liberalism
A conservative gives a speech before a small audience of liberals.