Not exact matches
Colm: I fear you are allowing your (and my) disagreements with the
classical liberal / libertarian right on social and economic policy to get in the
way of the possibility of useful discussion of civil liberties issues.
There's one other
way that American liberalism differs from
classical liberalism:
classical liberals took a deontological perspective on liberty, viewing personal autonomy and the pursuit of happiness as things that are inherently worthy of being promoted, regardless of what they lead to.