Classical Liberalism: The Unvanquished Ideal

Entering the lists of a venerable contest that was most recently revived in the early 1970s, Conway (philosophy and religious studies, Middlesex U.) defends the minimalist state against egalitarian welfare liberals who decry the inequality it allows, communitarians complaining that it destroys community, and conservatives who see it undermining the patriotism on which the state's legitimacy and stability depends. He takes them on one at a time, perhaps because none of them will be in the same ring with either other. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.