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liberalism

noun as in left-wing

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He has taught generations of principled conservatives from his position at Princeton, standing athwart the Rawlsian liberalism regnant in the academy.

Rather, the dalliance between left and right is taking place at the margins where a mutual disgust for liberalism fuels the romance.

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Unlike Marxism or reform liberalism, it has no systematic ideological program; rather, it is a set of dispositions and attitudes.

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In this manner, Protestantism begat modern liberalism and individualism.

Two weeks before Clinton won the presidency, Time magazine reported that his “economic vision” was “perhaps best described as a call for a We decade; not the old I-am-my-brother’s-keeper brand of traditional Democratic liberalism.”

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