Ron Wyden, Democratic Senator from Oregon who serves on the Senate Finance Committee and the Energy Committee, is generally considered a liberal, though with a mixed bag of positions that…

…more liberal course their leaders have taken on health care. Feeling burned by a tough vote on climate-change legislation that is languishing in the Senate, What a pile of Bulldog…

…policy backed as necessary by the use of State force (see Peterloo Massacre). I firmly believe that much of the problem with the classical liberal economic model is that it…

…home state three years ago. In many respects it adopts the most liberal approaches to health reform being discussed in Washington. Kennedy, for example, embraces a proposal to create a…

…Railroad builders, agree that only through such methods could the railroad have been built without far more liberal Government aid. Did you catch that? We either put up the money…

…Many liberal pundits are taking Obama to task for his reservations on this topic, insisting his vacillation is undermining the moral as well as practical objections he raised against the…

…cut amidst the stimulus and proclaims it a Good Idea. It is a good idea! And I like the endgame, too: Liberals have been reticent, too. The payroll tax now…

…in the creation of wealth. This can put an economy in a very tenuous position, as was evidenced by Thailand in 1997. Not bad for a student from a liberal…

…us back to Libertarianism and Classical Liberal Economics. To the extent you can distinguish between the two the practitioners tend to insist that they are just engaging in rational scientific…

rdan Jamie Galbraith in the Predator State: Galbraith follows with an impertinent question: if conservatives no longer take free markets seriously, why should liberals? Why keep liberal thought in the…