Interest: : Classical liberalism

Classical liberalism (also known as traditional liberalism and laissez-faire liberalism) is a doctrine stressing the importance of human rationality, individual property rights, natural rights, the protection of civil liberties, constitutional limitations of government, free markets, and individual freedom from restraint as exemplified in the writings of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and others.

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• The classical liberal agenda at Catallaxy Files (14 March 2010)
  Still Australia's leading libertarian and centre-right blog.
• Joel's humanistic blog: Chomsky on his inner anarchist (14 March 2010)
  Chomsky has always had an unusual and seemingly disparate mix of intellectual influences, ranging from anarchism to progressivism to socialism to classical liberalism, and even has had kind things to say about capitalism and ...
• Liberal Democrat bloggers have a nerve claiming their MPs are the ... (13 March 2010)
  Shane Frith is director of the classical-liberal think-tank Progressive Vision and a founding Executive member of Progressive Conservatives. Here he takes issue with claims from Lib Dem Voice that Liberal Democrat MPs are the most ...
• Traditionalism vs. Classical Liberalism on Liberties « The ... (5 March 2010)
  One of the continuing trends of agrument, in the insular intellectual cage match which is the political Catholic blogsphere, is whether classical liberalism (of the sort seen in the Scottish Enlightenment and among the founders of the ...
• Austrian Economics and Classical Liberalism - Ralph Raico - Mises ... (1 August 2004)
  Classical liberalism — which we shall call here simply liberalism — is based on the conception of civil society as, by and large, self-regulating when its members are free to act within very wide bounds of their individual rights. ...

Richard Spencer's Nordic Supermen FrumForum The 'Alternative Right' most diverges with American conservatism in the way that it takes a sledgehammer to classical liberalism. ...

GW students: Our profs are liberals Washington Post (blog) Travis Korson, president of the chapter, cited national trends toward the rejection of Western civilization, Euro-centricism and classical liberal arts in ... and more »

Locke, Hayek, JK Rowling? Daily Caller I applaud any effort to reinstate classical liberalism on college campuses, but by removing Harry Potter classes, we would actually be depriving ourselves ...

Are There Secular Reasons? New York Times (blog) ... the argument most often made on the liberal side (by which I mean the side of Classical Liberalism, not the side of left politics) is that policy ... and more »

Family Security Matters

Exclusive – Oval Office Watch – Thursday, February 18 Family Security Matters But the political history of the twentieth century, and not just in its totalitarian extremes, proved unkind to both classical liberalism and anarchism. ... and more »