How to Use liberalism in a Sentence

liberalism

noun

• This is not the voice of genuine liberalism or the search for truth.
  — Daniel J. Mahoney, National Review, 17 Oct. 2020
• The great project of liberalism (meant here in the usual sense) is to reverse this.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2022
• And, look, the board is not known as a bastion of liberalism.
  — John Baer, Philly.com, 29 June 2018
• His life serves as a lens through which to look at liberalism.
  — Time, 29 Oct. 2022
• Mrs May has tried to stamp that liberalism out of the party.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• The New Deal was more clever and diverse than just tax-and-spend liberalism.
  — David Brooks, Star Tribune, 31 July 2020
• From then on, liberalism would be the only game in town.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 30 Mar. 2022
• All of these are the result of wild, out of control liberalism.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 27 Apr. 2022
• Some on the right now complain about the failures of liberalism, in this larger sense.
  — WSJ, 6 May 2022
• But to me, at least, a little of his imagine-all-the-people ’70s liberalism goes a long way.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Aug. 2021
• The United States, a young nation across the ocean, had been conceived in liberalism.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• Beyond that, Jewish liberalism goes back at least to the 1600s and Spinoza.
  — Ethan Bronner, The New York Review of Books, 12 Mar. 2020
• His muddled defense of liberalism comes with a heavy dose of disdain for the left.
  — Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2021
• This was one of many points in the decade where white liberalism and white conservatism converged.
  — Rebecca Schuman, Longreads, 2 May 2018
• The play is a critique of white liberalism based on her own life, which was cut short by her battle with cancer.
  — Kinsey Crowley, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2023
• The travails of liberalism will not end even if Putin loses.
  — David Rieff, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2022
• The genius of Wesker’s play rescues the liberalism of La Cocina.
  — Armond White, National Review, 30 Oct. 2024
• What then is to be done to exorcise the many ghosts in those cold war stories of liberalism, democracy, and the free world?
  — Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books, 21 Oct. 2020
• The postmodernist critique of liberalism has now drifted over to the right.
  — Francis Fukuyama, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
• Many are young folks who have been on the front lines of social change and protests and refuse to compromise their politics for the sake of liberalism.
  — Clarissa Brooks, Teen Vogue, 16 Nov. 2018
• As is now plain, the spread of liberalism does not by itself curtail fighting.
  — Michael Doyle, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
• The first of these traits predicts conservatism, but the others point to liberalism.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2019
• Their Benedict is a holy man who saved the Church from the excesses of the sixties and the tide of liberalism, and a local Church report on long-ago abuse is beside the point.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2022
• The problem with his book is that, like so much of liberalism, the arguments are not specific.
  — Mark Judge, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024
• This is no easy task, for liberalism boasts a long list of dogged impersonators.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
• On the other side, there are the Orbán cheerleaders such as Rod Dreher and the natcons types who have given up on small-L liberalism.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 4 Apr. 2022
• At first considered a centrist, Stevens came to be seen as a lion of liberalism.
  — Author: Mark Sherman, Connie Cass, Anchorage Daily News, 17 July 2019
• What about the idea that integration would strengthen the forces of liberalism in China?
  — Hal Brands, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• But at the time, there also emerged a group of scholars who did question the sufficiency of liberalism.
  — Christopher Beem, The Conversation, 18 Mar. 2020
• And that Deneen’s contention that liberalism failed us is backward.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Jan 2025