MODERN LIBERALISM & AMERICAN DECLINE
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Conservatives frequently argue that modern liberalism has been a major cause, perhaps the chief cause, of American decline. Indeed, the phrase "modern liberalism and American decline" was popularized as the subtitle of a book by conservative legal scholar Robert Bork. Unsurprisingly, liberals reject any such claim, and dueling reviews of Bork's book provide a convenient entry point to the discussion. In order to evaluate the assertion, and the arguments made for and against it, it is first necessary to define a couple of terms. Liberalism, in American political usage, has a meaning quite different from its general meanings in political science and economics. In economics, for example, liberalism applies to free-market views that American conservatives generally support. In this discussion, liberalism is used in the American popular political sense. Liberalism thus refers to a set of views associated with the Democratic Party, favoring a more active economic role for government, support for social policies such as affirmative action and multiculturalism, and relaxed sexual mores on iss
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