Liberalism as a Way of Life – Princeton University Press

Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life-and how you can become a better and happier person by taking your liberal beliefs more seriouslyWhere do you get your values and sensibilities from?If you grew up in a Western democracy, the answer is probably liberalism.Conservatives are right about one thing: liberalism is the ideology of our times, as omnipresent as religion once was.Yet, as Alexandre Lefebvre argues in Liberalism as a Way of Life, many of us are liberal without fully realizing it-or grasping what it means.Misled into thinking that liberalism is confined to politics, we fail to recognize that it’s the water we swim in, saturating every area of public and private life, shaping our psychological and spiritual outlooks, and influencing our moral and aesthetic values-our sense of what is right, wrong, good, bad, funny, worthwhile, and more.This eye-opening book shows how so many of us are liberal to the core, why liberalism provides the basis