Description
At the height of his talk show career in the 90s, Rush Limbaugh successfully turned “liberal” into a derogatory sneer, and ever since, voices on the right have pilloried liberalism as the source of all that ails us. But what is liberalism? Originally, being a “liberal” meant being free—free from the coercion of monarchs or religious institutions, and therefore free to live in accord with the dictates of one’s own conscience. What are liberalism’s historical roots? Who are its key voices? And what does it really mean to be a “liberal” in today’s world?
