The “L” Word

TomInReston | January 25, 2009

Every now and then, there is an op-ed worth reading.
Author Timothy Garton Ash, a fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and the Hoover Institution at Stanford, looks at the debasement of the word “liberal,” and while the word itself may have been marginalized, the concepts it once embodied are a part of the fabric of [...]

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TomInReston

I'm a former working journalist and now communications director for a small Washington DC trade association. I'm also a political activist and technology enthusiast, two things I once thought were different.