The Roots of Liberalism

This spirited book traces the roots of liberalism through the noblest traditions, virtues, institutions and longings embedded in Western culture. Liberalism is under attack from both left and right, but anti-liberals have failed to understand how the tradition defines our idea of civic virtue. Liberalism is not an ideology that stands above our practices and judges them, but a practice itself, an inheritance of virtues, institutions, customs, and longings embedded in our culture and passed on th