Certainly, the fundamental disjuncture of the current economic crisis opens a new space in which
liberal thinkers' market scepticism and proposals for state intervention will be more readily listened to.
While there are the more reformist
liberal thinkers who will regard all these sentences as extremely substantial (some killers are released after serving less than half the supposedly average 20-year 'life' term), there are others who think the stipulated punishments are only just beginning to fit the crime, and that the minimum jail terms should be much longer.
One of the great political ironies of the past few decades is that the Christian Right has been much more successful than its political rivals at fulfilling
liberal thinkers' hopes for American democracy.
INTERESTING TIMES...Soho House, Handsworth, home of Matthew Boulton (right), played host to the Lunar Society, a group of
liberal thinkers who were opposed to the slave trade.
Unfortunately, when other
liberal thinkers have grappled with the relationship between liberty and other political values, they have sometimes come away from their attempts with a weaker commitment to liberty.
Again, we need to examine much more closely what modern
liberal thinkers mean by "freedom of religious belief".
Thus the discussions about the role of the state and about communal property, both within Russkii vestnik and between it and Atenei, another mid-19th-century liberal publication, most probably reflected the initial process of differentiation among
liberal thinkers. The spread of ideas about the state's hegemonic role in the historical process and the utility of maintaining the communal obshchina order in the countryside reflect the diverse character of early Russian liberalism.
Liberal thinkers, in attacking what they see as the intolerance of religious or non-Western beliefs, argue that only a secular worldview, inherited from the Enlightenment is able to provide a means of rational co-existence between cultures today.
In addition, if students had been asked to read the writings of classical
liberal thinkers such as John Locke, Adam Smith and John S.
Donskis (political science and philosophy, Vytautas Magnus U., Lithuania) analyzes his country's emergence from two totalitarian regimes, and responses to the challenging times by three prominent
liberal thinkers: Vytautas Kavolis, Alesandras Shtromas, and Tomas Venclova.
Chappell argues that
liberal thinkers such as Dewey were in search of a civic faith that would guide the nation.
If
liberal thinkers currently fret about the rebirth of American Imperialism as the world is slowly globalised under the cultural and economic shadow of the Stars and Stripes, maybe those inside the music industry should be equally concerned by the colonisation currently been carried out by the N*E*R*Ds.