Mr Lingeman does a good job of emphasising Lewis's courage, independence of mind and liberal sanity his adherence to what he described as "the clear radical line.
However, while democracies are exposed to international norms through hard instruments such as laws, conventions, and courts; liberal norm adherence might play out more strongly in autocratic systems that seek to portray themselves as progressive countries on the international scene.
There is plenty wrong with the Democratic Party, but monolithic adherence to liberal orthodoxy is not one of them.
Mr. McCain predictably criticized liberal judges, vowed strict adherence to the Founders' views and promised to appoint more judges in the mold of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito.
In the Lords, peers appointed by Labour because of their record of independent thinking and adherence to liberal values have been shattered by the pressures imposed by the whips when they dare to vote against the government.
This is the book's main theme: the superiority of broad-mindedness and liberal thinking over unthinking adherence to the old ways, especially those exemplified by the decadent aristocracy.
They address immediate, real-world concerns that require no understanding of climate science or adherence to liberal orthodoxy.
The legislation, tabled Wednesday at the Canadian province's legislature by the ruling Liberal party, aims to promote "adherence to State religious neutrality" by mandating that government services be provided to and by people with uncovered faces.
Adherence to the old notion of a liberal education, with a small number of courses covering fundamental subjects and with much commonality among the programs taken by different students, might have provided a basis for resistance to the fragmentation of the student body described by Mr. Levine.
In the early 1960s, for example, certain new ideas about poverty and welfare began to gain adherence among intellectuals of the then-dominant liberal faction.
