Paul Edward Gottfried

In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyses a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. Many people, of course, realise that liberalism no longer connotes distributed powers and bourgeois moral standards, the need to protect civil society from an encroaching state, or the virtues of vigorous self-government. Many also know that today's "liberals" have...