Classical liberalism is a more moderate version of libertarianism. For example, classical liberals may be open to a wider range of government interventions than libertarians (though both favor far ...

Restoring American Classical and Constitutional Liberalism If we Americans are no longer sufficiently virtuous, the fault lies primarily with us, not our founding principles.

Classical liberalism is synonymous with a faith in reason, which had arisen out of the Enlightenment as a reaction to claims of divine rule by the clergy and royalty of the late Middle Ages.

Classical liberalism is built on ideas that had already arisen by the end of the 18th century, such as selected ideas of Adam Smith, John Locke, Jean-Baptiste Say, Thomas Malthus, ...

Political Science. Why the ‘Classical Liberal’ is Making a Comeback. A perfect storm of political upheaval has led to the resurgence of a label with centuries-old roots.

Many of the main currents of liberalism today present a story of a fundamental break that occurred in the history of liberalism, between the “classical liberalism” of Locke and Montesquieu ...

Classical liberalism has been described in several ways, but its fundamental tenets include freedom of speech, individualism, viewpoint diversity, reason, scientific inquiry and equality.

American conservatives are not merely classical liberals. Yet this too seems unlikely and unfair. Just refer back to Kristol’s list: Conservatives can comfortably embrace liberal democracy ...

In The Future of Liberalism (2009), Alan Wolfe writes that the true heirs to the liberalism of John Locke, Adam Smith, and Thomas Jefferson are not today's classical liberals (libertarians), but ...

One solution adopted by pundits like Jordan Peterson and D.C. McAllister is to reach back into the 19th century and claim the mantle of "classical liberalism." That provides a nice aura of ...

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