(Witness most people's unwillingness to hang Bill Clinton for his sexual hubris). Conservatives call this journey a decline; liberals see it as fumbling progress.
Maybe what's happening in America today will seem funny to some other culture in some future time how it happened that in the depths of America's decline, Liberals, the great opposition to everything mean and ruthless in this culture, couldn't muster up a get-together for anything better than a mock-in.
There is constant talk about STEM degrees leading to the most lucrative careers and the decline of liberal arts education, but our list shows elite liberal arts schools holding their own.
In fact, the next five years constituted a time of drastic decline in Liberal support.
In the United States, weakening constraints on the executive branch have resulted in a significant decline of liberal democracy.
Tuğal's most recent book, Caring for the Poor (2017, Routledge), examines the emergence, globalization, and decline of liberal ethics by focusing on charity, philanthropy, and welfare.
On political fronts, we see a decline in liberal democracy; for instance, Freedom House reports that more countries have experienced losses than gains in freedoms since 2005.
OPINION A column by Ross Douthat on Sunday about the decline of liberal Christianity misstated the date of an interview an Episcopal Church bishop did with The Times.
My Sunday column dealt with the post-1960s decline of liberal Christianity in the United States, as manifested by the empty pews and uncertain future of the Episcopal Church.
The YouGov tracker poll has shown a clear trend away from AV support through the autumn, possibly matching the decline in Liberal Democrat support.
