An Intelligent Person's Guide to Liberalism
(Liberalism, like democracy, is a hurrah-word. People as w...)
Liberalism, like democracy, is a hurrah-word. People as widely apart as Roy Jenkins and Lord Harris, and Nobel Prize winners Milton Friedmann and J.K. Galbraith, all claim to be liberals. But who are really the successors to that great liberal triumvirate: Locke, Bentham, and Mill? In this polemical book, Lord Russell has set for himself the task of defining the true touchstone of that great British institution, liberal philosophy. Lucidly analyzing how it worked in the past, he makes a passionate plea for its continued importance in the modern world. Liberalism couldn't be further removed from colorless pluralism or watered-down socialism. Its belief in individual autonomy is a vital political philosophy that we can only ignore at our peril.
https://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Persons-Guide-Liberalism/dp/0715629476
1999