What Is Liberalism? A Review of 'The Roots of Liberalism: What Faithful Knights and the Little Match Girl Taught Us about Civic Virtue'

“In contrast to the progressivism in ascendency for more than a decade, Buckley celebrates a liberalism of empathy, benevolence, and kindness. ‘Today we wouldn’t say we need kindness….Justice has taken its place. But if kindness made us more liberal its abandonment has made us illiberal.” - Acton