Source: Liberal Currents
by Janet Bufton
“Too many liberals — especially classical or market liberals — have fallen into the trap of thinking that because a liberal state must be neutral about morality and the good life, liberals can’t have anything to say about the way of living or beliefs that support it. Some liberals have fallen into the trap of thinking that they have to draw on other ideologies, like conservatism or socialism, for their moral goals. This is staggeringly mistaken, and buying into it would be devastating to liberalism. It is precisely because liberalism cannot take sides that liberals must. Liberalism defends individuals, and it depends upon them.” (07/07/25)