{"id":9782,"date":"2012-04-09T15:44:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T15:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/04\/09\/the-illiberalism-of-contemporary-liberals-2\/"},"modified":"2012-04-09T15:44:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T15:44:25","slug":"the-illiberalism-of-contemporary-liberals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/04\/09\/the-illiberalism-of-contemporary-liberals-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Illiberalism of Contemporary Liberals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">When&#0160;I attack liberals it is always contemporary liberals that I have in my sights.&#0160; I myself am in several ways a classical liberal.&#0160; What I object to in contemporary liberals, or &#39;progressives&#39; as they like to call themselves, is their extremism and their <em>illiberalism<\/em>.&#0160; Peter Berkowitz has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2012\/04\/08\/zionism_health_care_and_the_illiberalism_of_progressive_minds-2.html\" target=\"_self\">an excellent article<\/a> on progressive illiberalism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">There is more true liberalism in today&#39;s conservatives than in today&#39;s &#39;liberals.&#39;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When&#0160;I attack liberals it is always contemporary liberals that I have in my sights.&#0160; I myself am in several ways a classical liberal.&#0160; What I object to in contemporary liberals, or &#39;progressives&#39; as they like to call themselves, is their extremism and their illiberalism.&#0160; Peter Berkowitz has an excellent article on progressive illiberalism. There is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/04\/09\/the-illiberalism-of-contemporary-liberals-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Illiberalism of Contemporary Liberals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}