South African anti-apartheid activist Helen Suzman died yesterday at the age of 91. She was a committed liberal, not only at a time when it was an unfashionable political stance, but in the face of great adversity. As a Jewish woman in a parliament dominated by male Calvinist...
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"Will he disappoint us? Will we disappoint him? Will we disappoint ourselves?" Read the second installment of the Obama trilogy from The Liberal magazine at: http://www.theliberal.co.uk/Barack_Obama_and_the_Politics_of_Expectation.html
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Forty years after the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, Obama's message has chimed with the optimism of an earlier generation eager for change, one which exuded what R.F.K. described as the 'spirit of youth': "not a time of life but a state of...
An essay by editor of The Liberal magazine, Benjamin Ramm, exploring the meaning of Barack Obama's candidacy: ``Obama ’s unifying project aims to make the United States more than the sum of its parts – not a union divided and ruled, appeased and triangulated, but...
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Remembering Helen Suzman
