liberal

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Their conversation explores what liberalism really is at its core, how both the political left and right have drifted into illiberalism, and what ordinary citizens can do to restore faith in liberal principles and institutions.

From Slate • May 16, 2026

What’s special about a liberal arts seminar is that 12 to 18 people around a table where you do Socratic dialogue and you have your assumptions challenged.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Her arrival shifted the “center of verbal energy” to the liberal side, Feldman wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

The post-Cold War “end of history” era, a term popularized by political scientist Francis Fukuyama in 1989, was built around the idea that liberal democracy and the U.S.-led order had triumphed, Reid said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

Its leaders founded a black college—which became the first publicly supported liberal arts college for blacks in the United States.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson