NE OF THE most striking as0 pects of the 1960 election campaign is that it was waged between two comparatively liberal platforms and candidates. It is true that Kennedy carried the standard of a party whose majority is actually liberal, whereas Nixon represented a party which had subscribed to a relatively liberal platfonn (including a rather strong civil rights position) with some reluctance, ...

Liberalism has been fundamental to the making of modern world, at times shaping basic assumptions as nature political, and in other cases existing a delimited political project contention with others. Across its long history, liberal projects have taken diverse range forms, which resist easy reduction single logic or history. This diversity, however, often escaped anthropological attention. In ...

This paper defends a distinctly liberal approach to public health ethics and replies to possible objections. In particular, I look at a set of recent proposals aiming to revise and expand liberalism in light of public health's rationale and epidemiological findings. I argue that they fail to provide a sociologically informed version of liberalism. Instead, they rest on an implicit normative pre...