That was the secret of Hitchens' success: he provided a liberal rationale for the "war on terror".
He discounts Ginsburg's traditional liberal rationale for affirmative action — that it's a remedy for past discrimination — in favor of O'Connor's view that preferences for minorities in university admissions guarantee diverse workplaces and leadership.
Fourteen planning-related policies are described, and their neo-liberal rationales are explained.
As noted in 4.2, some political liberals have sought to provide rationales showing why a liberal state should support certain relationships; these rationales generate corresponding reform proposals.
The laws proposed by Zeev Elkin, Danny Danon and many others violate one of the deepest rationales of liberal democracy: to avoid what the great observer of Democracy, Alexis de Tocqueville, called the danger of the tyranny of the majority; to protect open and critical discussion as well as the rights of minorities.
To such neutral liberals, this class of rationales, which appeal to controversial value judgments about sex and love, must be excluded (Rawls 1997, 779).
First, the sociopolitical environment shifted once the social investment perspective emerged as a key rationale for the Martin Liberal government's focus on a national early childhood education and care strategy.
As noted above, such rationales come into tension with liberal neutrality; further controversy regarding them will be discussed below (5.2).
In his view, the story line of "Les Centurions" provided French liberals a more palatable rationale for torture than the racist explanations supplied by others (such as the notion that the Algerians, inherently simpleminded, understood only brute force).
In fact, liberals embraced the diversity rationale in the 1970s partly because it allowed them to extend affirmative action to new groups — especially women — with far weaker historical grievances than African Americans.
With a better understanding of the rationale and limits of Mill's liberal principles, we can take a closer look at the details of his categorical approach, including its centerpiece the harm principle.
