A lot
of liberals think everyone should have the same options, which isn't true, some options you need to earn.
In all likelihood, the rising generation
of liberals think themselves smart and well trained.
Belief in a transcendent order could as easily, and as misleadingly, be described as the «first canon»
of liberal thought.
It is the merit
of liberal thought to have taken human freedom much more seriously.
Emails released by WikiLeaks reveal the maneuverings
of a liberal think - tank president and member of Hillary Clinton's inner circle.
He jointly edited the Dictionary
of Liberal Thought (2007) with Duncan Brack and wrote «How and How Not to Face the Future» — a response to the Lib Dem policy paper «Facing the Future».
The third such attack on the Green fiscal outlook arrived from Tom Papworth
of the liberal think tank Centre Forum in the New Statesman.
Another example: think of all the times that the most extreme position taken by a random commentor on a lefty blog is held out by some TV blathering head or talk radio host as somehow being representative
of ALL liberal thought.
At the same event, Paul Marshall, founder
of liberal think tank CentreForum, also noted how Boris Johnson seems to have captured the imagination of this liberal group of voters, but asked «why should they be generation Boris, they should be generation Jeremy!»
However I am man
of liberal thought and accept everyone as they are.
Or they could go FoxNews on us and delete any hint
of liberal thinking.
There's some good stuff in the recent New York Times (that bastion
of liberal thinking, paid for by advertisers, heavily representing big fossil, but bravely trying).
It marked the first time since the end of World War II that workers made almost no progress on wages throughout an entire business cycle, says Larry Mishel, president
of the liberal think tank Economic Policy Institute.
Not exact matches
«A well - rounded
liberal arts degree establishes a foundation
of critical
thinking.
«I
think we can see... the effect
of lessons they learned from the first Abe administration, which gave up mid-stream,» said Tetsuro Fukuyama, an upper house lawmaker whose Democratic Party
of Japan (DPJ) ousted Abe's
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in 2009, only to be crushed themselves at the polls in December.
One would
think that these proposals would make Schultz a natural standard bearer
of the Very Important
Liberal Ideas.
The Soros - backed Central European University in Budapest has said the new law is aimed at closing it down as part
of a plan to discourage
liberal thought.
«There are lots
of people who were as
liberal as I was in the military, and like in the rest
of America most folks in the military are probably less ideological than talking heads would ike to
think they are.»
Walk into a store — old - school hip - hop playing softly, like Muzak for millennials — and you'll find customers leafing through Oak Street, the company's in - house magazine (a recent issue features an editorial by Ethan Song that quotes Steve Jobs's
thoughts on the intersection
of technology and the
liberal arts).
I
think the cultural gap between a
liberal metropolis like New York and the rest
of America is more stark than it has been, and the conflict plays out in Internet media because Hulk Hogan's [Florida] neighbors can read Gawker.
Long suggested his own frustration is a symptom
of a much wider problem — an unhealthy gap between
Liberal backbenchers» political instincts and the sort
of policy
thinking that emanates from the well - staffed offices
of the Prime Minister and top cabinet ministers.
Co-founder and CEO Eli Pariser, whose site first staked a reputation for re-packaging
liberal stories, says the move to partner with a traditional network (and MSNBC in particular) is one that makes sense for both companies: «We had a meeting with NBCU and realized that we were
thinking about a bunch
of the same things, and that it would be fun to collaborate on a project,» he says, by «bringing together what we learned from curating a lot
of video for purpose - driven millennials, and what they know about visual video storytelling,» he tells Inc. exclusively.
Many
of these companies already enjoyed a bump in share prices when the
Liberals won the election, and again after the budget announcement, but Nazir
thinks the real gains will come once the extra cash starts showing up on balance sheets.
Liberal access to information helps the team recognize ways to innovate they otherwise wouldn't know enough to
think of.
Regardless
of the response, we view this kind
of public CEO activism as a welcome counterpoint to the largely hidden involvement
of corporate leaders in shaping policy through the hundreds
of millions
of dollars they direct to Super PACs, trade associations, and
think tanks to promote
liberal and conservative causes.
OTTAWA — Donald Trump needs to butt out as a hovering presence over the North American Free Trade Agreement talks and U.S. lawmakers must come clean about what they really
think of the deal, says a veteran
Liberal MP.
If we lose the fight to stop these pipelines then I would
think the next line
of attack would be to both make sure the
liberals have such a bad image in people's minds they will not be re-elected, and more needs to be done to convince those believing oil and gas are a good thing that there are better alternatives.
«The Fatalist Conceit»: The frustration many
liberals feel about President Trump is a byproduct
of the left's unreasonable expectations: They
think they can change the country through politics.
OTTAWA — Toward the end
of the 2015 election campaign, Justin Trudeau was chatting with reporters on the tarmac near his chartered
Liberal aircraft when someone asked if he really
thought his party could win big on...
I
think there are grounds to challenge the communication
of the
Liberal proposal as being about «created» jobs, just as I challenged the NDP in the original Econowatch article.
Dean Baker, co-director
of the Center for Economic Policy and Research, a
liberal think tank, said he «can't
think of any way they were a factor at all.»
Ezra Klein: There is a quality
of being able to say no and being able to shop around and being able to do things on your timetable that really matters here, but the other thing that I
think is interesting there, because here's where I
think possibly
liberals can take this argument too far.
Legitimate small business tax rules — put in place by previous
Liberal and Conservative governments to support small business growth and expansion — are now
thought of as loopholes being exploited by the fat - cat owner
of the neighbourhood coffee shop, chiropractor or dry cleaner.
Back in 2014, it was a good idea for Trudeau and the
Liberals to start
thinking of Conservatives as neighbours — as people with whom they would have to find common ground.
The election
of a majority
Liberal government not only saw high - profile changes in rhetoric —
think, «Canada is back» — but also equally lauded announcements on accepting 25,000 refugees from Syria, international peacekeeping, or a bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council, among others.
Within the general concepts
of humanism there are three branches
of thought:
liberal humanism, social humanism and evolutionary humanism.
Given the fact that the B.C.
Liberals went over budget by more than $ 3 billion on their last five major projects, it would be no surprise if B.C. taxpayers start losing sleep
thinking about a bunch
of «nervous» B.C.
Liberals mismanaging Site C without BCUC oversight.
«The tax plan is just the latest in a long line
of really bad economic policies that are based on an idea
of how corporations work that has nothing to do with how corporations actually work today,» Nell Abernathy, vice president
of research and policy at the
liberal - leaning
think tank the Roosevelt Institute, told me.
To the untrained eye, it may look like the
Liberal Party is on the verge
of internal collapse and maybe it is, but I struggle to
think of a time when Alberta has had an opposition party not rife with internal division.
Pierre Bessard is president and executive trustee
of the
Liberal Institute, Switzerland's independent research and educational
think tank founded in 1979, which he joined in 2007 and has helped expand with a new team since then.
Liberal Party President Erick Ambtman edged out Calgary - Buffalo MLA Kent Hehr in the latest blog poll asking readers
of this blog who they
thought should replace Calgary - Mountain View MLA David Swann as leader
of his party.
VICTORIA — B.C.
Liberal leadership candidate Michael de Jong must
think people in B.C. have forgotten 16 years
of B.C.
Liberal neglect on housing, child care and education as he announces things he refused to deliver while he was the...
VICTORIA — B.C.
Liberal leadership candidate Michael de Jong must
think people in B.C. have forgotten 16 years
of B.C.
Liberal neglect on housing, child care and education as he announces things he refused to deliver while he was the minister
of finance.
Amazon's general counsel, David Zapolsky, had a lot on his mind last month when he and four members
of his legal team visited the offices
of New America, a
liberal - leaning
think tank in Washington.
Schleiermacher was a
liberal theologian because he
thought modernity represents something fundamentally new and positive for humanity, something that stimulates Christian reform, enabling the true genius
of our faith finally to achieve full expression.
Typically,
liberals will attack her worse than any conservative would because
of their extreme unquenchable hatred for anyone who
thinks differently than they do.
Most
of today's espousers
of the
liberal peace justify punishment, however, not by Kant's retributivism but through the later
thought of utilitarians like Jeremy Bentham, who held that the purpose
of punishment is to deter others from committing crimes and to rehabilitate the offender.
So instead
of recommending Jaume, I'll turn you to what is, so far, a pretty solid recent collection on Tocqueville, which I know contains one particularly rich essay, «Tocquevillean
Thoughts on Higher Education in the Middle East,» by Joshua Mitchell, a leading participant in ongoing efforts to introduce genuine
liberal arts education to the Arab world, in Quatar and Iraq specifically.
I
think it comes down to the reality that not only are most news reporters and producers
liberals themselves, they are also embedded in social networks
of people who are much more partisan
liberals.
When Jesus returns, I don't
think he will automatically fall into the Conservative camp, with all his radical beliefs about shunning wealth and individual rights, Jesus just may be the biggest
Liberal of them all.