Sam Karnick on Classical Liberalism.
This is a description of political affiliation I got in an email from Sam Karnick of Hudson and NRO fame. I know that it describes my views on politics and many of yours as well:
Roger [Kimball] refers to himself simply as a liberal, clarifying, when necessary, by saying that he is a classical Liberal. I put it that I am a right-of-center liberal, or an 18th-century English Whig liberal, which makes some sense given my abiding interest in and admiration for the literature of the period. I believe that the people currently called liberals are in fact radicals, and would like to reclaim the term if possible. Given that the Left has run away from the name of liberal anyway, I am in the process of writing an essay that would clarify just who is who in terms of political stance and personal temperament in the post-Communist era. The slight changes in terms would take some getting used to but would be much more sensible.

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