Classical liberalism, anatomized by a traditionalist conservative

Mark Richardson, Australian traditionalist blogger, shows what is missing in the classical liberal credo as stated by Peter Hitchens. As Richardson points out, not only is the classic liberal position of negative rights and restrictions on state power inadequate in itself to a proper understanding of the human, but it leads inevitably over time to a system of positive rights and unlimited state power directed at making everyone equal. I then speak of the American Founding as a unique amalgam of the classical liberal and the traditional.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at May 12, 2009 02:38 PM | Send