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The Last Liberal
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The year 1989 marked the death of the independent journalist, Isidor
Feinstein (I.F.) Stone, the last twentieth century US liberal. Liberalism
in the last century combined the liberties of the original Bill of Rights
with Roosevelt’s proposed Second Bill of Rights. By mid-century, US
liberalism reached its greatest heights, supplementing the historic
bourgeois rights that dismantled feudalism and enshrined the right to
property with the promise of an entirely new set of economic rights--
rights to employment, housing, medical care, social security, education,
among others. The economic rights sought to codify the social democratic
gains made in the New Deal era.
By the time of I.F. Stone’s death in 1989, liberalism had nearly shed all
of its commitment to the Rooseveltian social justice rights....* TO READ
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