The government's capacity to act is a resource as much for conservative as for liberal purposes.
For Michael J. Horowitz at the Hudson Institute, a conservative research group, what matters is how the wealth of largely conservative individuals is often put to liberal purposes.
Almost 20 years ago, in his 1991 book "Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State," William A. Galston — a center-left political theorist and strategist who later served in the Clinton administration — argued, more probingly than Sandel does here, that modern liberalism cannot and should not fix upon neutrality as its pole star.
The mission there soon crept to, or became mixed with, that of building a society in which, for example, women would not be treated as hooded slaves and chattels – a good liberal purpose from which the west is now quietly and shamefacedly retreating.
In fact, the last English monarch to sign an executive order was James II, who in 1687 issued the Declaration of Indulgence, in which he used his "legal dispensing power" to negate the effect of laws that punished Catholics and Protestant dissenters, which on the face of it, seems like a rather liberal purpose, except that it came with various concentrations of executive power to his office.
That's just what researchers at the University of Washington are doing, with purpose-built tools and liberal use of Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
Liberal decisions, for these purposes, are "antibusiness, antiemployer, pro-liability, pro-competition, pro-consumer, etc.," according to the study.
Actually, if you put it in different language, it is a progressive agenda .This is going much further than a simple creed of liberal interventionism for humanitarian purposes.
Learning Innovation Home > Blog > Sign Up for CIT's April Book Club on Randy Bass's "Open and Integrative" Bass's book, coauthored with Bret Eynon, looks at reimagining the core purposes of liberal education in the context of technological change.
Although users often focus on a cutoff score that achieves a balance between sensitivity and specificity, more liberal cutoffs for screening purposes versus conservative cutoffs when cost or risk of further evaluation is deemed to be high should also be considered.
For the purposes of liberal education, the former is but a preliminary and the latter, ultimately, the stuff of mooks.
