I've been perusing the net for appropriate videos to follow up the last Chalk Talk. I have not found exactly what I was looking for. The video below is brief and is accompanied with thrasher-metal music, but it touches on the topic.
I am looking for video material that focuses on the switch in the term "liberal," occurring during the progressive era prior to the New Deal. Essentially, progressives took ownership of the the term "liberal" and applied to it the opposite of it meaning: a focus on the primacy of the individual, free trade, free markets, and limitations and decentralization of government power. There is some reading in Freedom 101 about this switch, but I wanted to pull in some outside material.
Recommendations are always welcome!
Back to the video. Disclaimer: I don't know what the author of this video is all about, I am simply interested in the part of his video that hinges on the switch in the understanding of the term "liberal." The author suggests "taking back" the term. Presently, I do not use "liberal" to describe policies that mean their opposite, nor do I use the term to apply to myself. Maybe I will in the right circumstance and stir up a good conversation.
