Our proposal combines the fondest dream
of liberal reformers — public financing of campaigns — with the fondest dream of conservative and libertarian reformers — no restrictions at all on donations from American citizens.
Not exact matches
Maximilian's defeat in 1867, followed by the presidency
of Juárez and the constitutionalization
of the Lerdo Law, meant the
liberal reformers had won the political battle.
And the fact
liberal health
reformers, like conservative ones, are motivated by the desire to make coverage more available does not absolve them
of the duty to do so responsibly.
Through the shadows
of such a ghastly phantasm listen to the words
of Joseph Priestly, a clergyman, chemist, and
liberal reformer, writing on the glories
of modern technology from his vantage
of the eighteenth century:
The remarkable bishop
of Mainz, Wilhelm Emmanuel Baron von Ketteler (1811 — 1877), strongly encouraged the formation
of workers» and other forms
of associations to replace the institutions swept away by the
liberal reformers.
Accordingly, in his translations and writings on Hasidism, Buber criticized not only what he considered the deadening effects
of rabbinism on Jewish culture, but also German «Jewish
liberal reformers.
Why have many social critics and
reformers, including both conservatives and
liberals, found fault with the ideals
of Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Protestant,
liberal, and Anglo - American historians repeated without challenge the heroic defense
of freedom by Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican
reformers, by Dutch freedom fighters against Spanish cruelty and tyranny, and by intellectual opponents
of religious obscurantism in the eighteenth century.
Liberal reformers are basically concerned to achieve greater democratic participation and access
of all persons to the existing system.
Dr. Benjamin Spock, who remains controversial even after death for pushing a vegetarian diet for young children in the latest edition
of his baby book, was an anti-war activist, civil rights leader, health care
reformer and one
of the great
liberals of the 20th Century.
A best - case scenario, he says, is that Kim will show himself to be a
liberal reformer in the mold
of Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader
of the Soviet Union.
Teachers» unions have long found friendship among Democrats (with the exception
of some
liberal education
reformers who are supportive
of Obama - era education policies) so we might expect that as Democrat lawmakers were ousted during the recent wave
of Republican victories, so were the NEA's allies.
Traditionalists dislike the rationale for downplaying
liberal arts knowledge, while accountability
reformers consider its criticisms just one more rehearsal
of antitesting points.
Since traditional union contracts make it virtually impossible to replace an ineffective teacher,
liberal education
reformers and conservatives alike disagree with teachers» unions and their allies, which have generally treated any kind
of reform as an existential threat.
In truth, most
reformers aren't Governor Scott Walker - types bent on ending collective bargaining but
liberal parents (and even many teachers) who believe we can't afford to look the other way while a minority
of teachers commit malpractice in the classroom year after year.
So it is ironic that the left, which has made right - wing anti-government arguments, and made common cause with Republicans to scale back federal control over education, has settled on a public message
of attacking
liberal reformers as crypto - allies
of the GOP.
He's the new dean
of the Edgewood College School
of Education and self - proclaimed debunker
of «any «media» that prints stupid comments from education
reformers,» according to the
liberal education website At the Chalk Face.
After all, it was centrist Democrat
reformers (along with
liberal Democrat reform allies) who pushed the administration early on to call for a speedy reauthorization
of No Child, and stood by over the past year as Duncan and his team at the U.S. Department
of Education have engaged in what can be best called a misinformation campaign that has denigrated No Child's accountability measures as being broken.
Conservative and libertarian «
reformers» love ed reform
liberals because they give cover to a project that fits entirely with their principles but entirely against those
of Matt Yglesias: destroying public institutions, smashing unions, and attacking
liberal Democratic constituencies like public school teachers.
It would be fascinating to see Spufford tackle the post-Soviet transition and particularly the way in which
liberal reformers like Chubais and Berezovsky transformed themselves into oligarchs, with the aid
of Western academic economists like Andrei Shleifer.
... Ours is, bottom to top, a «carceral state,» in the flat verdict
of Conrad Black, the former conservative press lord and newly minted
reformer, who right now finds himself imprisoned in Florida, thereby adding a new twist to an old joke: A conservative is a
liberal who's been mugged; a
liberal is a conservative who's been indicted; and a passionate prison
reformer is a conservative who's in one.