How to Use liberalism in a Sentence
liberalism
noun-
This is not the voice of genuine liberalism or the search for truth.
— Daniel J. Mahoney, National Review, 17 Oct. 2020 -
The great project of liberalism (meant here in the usual sense) is to reverse this.
— Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2022 -
His life serves as a lens through which to look at liberalism.
— Time, 29 Oct. 2022 -
The New Deal was more clever and diverse than just tax-and-spend liberalism.
— David Brooks, Star Tribune, 31 July 2020 -
From then on, liberalism would be the only game in town.
— Damon Linker, The Week, 30 Mar. 2022 -
All of these are the result of wild, out of control liberalism.
— Fox News Staff, Fox News, 27 Apr. 2022 -
Some on the right now complain about the failures of liberalism, in this larger sense.
— WSJ, 6 May 2022 -
But to me, at least, a little of his imagine-all-the-people ’70s liberalism goes a long way.
— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Aug. 2021 -
The United States, a young nation across the ocean, had been conceived in liberalism.
— Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023 -
His muddled defense of liberalism comes with a heavy dose of disdain for the left.
— Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2021 -
The play is a critique of white liberalism based on her own life, which was cut short by her battle with cancer.
— Kinsey Crowley, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2023 -
The travails of liberalism will not end even if Putin loses.
— David Rieff, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2022 -
What then is to be done to exorcise the many ghosts in those cold war stories of liberalism, democracy, and the free world?
— Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books, 21 Oct. 2020 -
The postmodernist critique of liberalism has now drifted over to the right.
— Francis Fukuyama, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022 -
As is now plain, the spread of liberalism does not by itself curtail fighting.
— Michael Doyle, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024 -
Their Benedict is a holy man who saved the Church from the excesses of the sixties and the tide of liberalism, and a local Church report on long-ago abuse is beside the point.
— Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2022 -
The problem with his book is that, like so much of liberalism, the arguments are not specific.
— Mark Judge, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024 -
This is no easy task, for liberalism boasts a long list of dogged impersonators.
— Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 28 July 2023 -
On the other side, there are the Orbán cheerleaders such as Rod Dreher and the natcons types who have given up on small-L liberalism.
— David Harsanyi, National Review, 4 Apr. 2022 -
What about the idea that integration would strengthen the forces of liberalism in China?
— Hal Brands, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022 -
Whose reservoir of resentment against liberalism is as wide and deep as yours.
— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024 -
How sad if modern liberalism cannot abide the hopeful center of Amy Coney Barrett’s life.
— Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2020 -
Adam Smith has been portrayed as the father of economics, and as a founder of classical liberalism.
— Craig Smith, National Review, 16 June 2023 -
This desire to experiment can be linked to a broader sense of liberalism and curiosity about the world which emerged in the '70s.
— Sadhbh O'Sullivan, refinery29.com, 21 Jan. 2021 -
That won’t prevent charges that Biden’s pitch to centrists is designed to conceal stealth liberalism.
— W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 30 Sep. 2020 -
The statements are varying degrees of explicit, but all try to flesh out what their liberalism means in practice.
— WIRED, 6 Oct. 2022 -
Putin, of course, moved away from liberalism, and almost all the reformers found themselves on the periphery.
— Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2024 -
The global ripple of outrage over the killing of George Floyd is testing a bastion of Western liberalism: the French republic.
— Benoit Morenne and Stacy Meichtry, WSJ, 19 June 2020 -
There were rainbow-flag face masks and Black Lives Matter T-shirts and buttons affirming the many other tenets of yard-sign liberalism.
— Charles Homans, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023 -
At the same time, he may be seen as adding too much liberalism to a ticket already featuring Harris, who will be painted as a San Francisco liberal.
— Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2024
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