Liberal

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• 1/13/19
  

  The Myth of the Liberal Professoriate

  by Richard J. Morris

  If you think about it, university professors take a fundamentally conservative outlook.

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• SOURCE: Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
  3-22-18 (accessed)
  

  Fighting Words

  by Sean Wilentz

  No, “liberal” and “progressive” aren’t synonyms. They have completely different histories—and the differences matter.

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• SOURCE: Pew Research Center
  10-23-17
  

  In polarized era, fewer Americans hold a mix of conservative and liberal views

  Reflecting growing partisan gaps across most of the individual questions in the scale – even those where both parties have shifted in the same direction – Republicans and Democrats are now further apart ideologically than at any point in more than two decades.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-12-16
  

  More ‘Progressive’ Than Thou

  by Beverly Gage

  When Washington reformers became ‘liberals,’ ‘progressives’ in turn became more radical.

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• 6-26-15
  

  Liberals have reason to rejoice

  by Julian Zelizer

  But they should still not be sanguine. They shouldn't go too far in thinking that the nation is all of a sudden trending to the left.