# The Liberal

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{{Short description|Magazine}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name               = The Liberal
| image              = Theliberal cover 10.jpg
| type               = 'Poetry, Politics, Culture'
| founded            = December 2004
| ceased_publication = 2009 (print)
| owners             = The Liberal Publications, Ltd.
| editor             = [Benjamin Ramm](/source/Benjamin_Ramm)
| website            = [http://www.theliberal.co.uk/ www.theliberal.co.uk]
}}
'''''The Liberal''''' was a London-based magazine "dedicated to promoting liberalism around the world", which ran in print from 2004<ref>{{cite book|author=Caroline Taggart|title=Writer's Market 2010: Make Money Writing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j6iqPJyUmfwC&pg=PT602|access-date=19 November 2016|date=30 June 2010|publisher=F+W Media|isbn=978-0-7153-3529-1|page=602}}</ref> to 2009 and online until 2012. The publication explored liberal attitudes to a range of cultural issues, and encouraged a dialogue between liberal politics and the [liberal arts](/source/liberal_arts). Ideologically, ''The Liberal'' challenged the concept of 'liberalisms', arguing for the continuity of the liberal tradition, which finds its modern expression in [social liberalism](/source/social_liberalism).<ref>{{cite web|last=Kovar|first=Simon|title=The Neo-Liberal Democrats|url=http://www.theliberal.co.uk/libdems/neo-liberal-democrats.html|work=The Liberal|access-date=10 April 2011}}</ref>

The title claimed a lineage with ''The Liberal'', a short-lived periodical founded in 1822 by the Romantic poets [Percy Bysshe Shelley](/source/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley), [Lord Byron](/source/Lord_Byron) and [Leigh Hunt](/source/James_Henry_Leigh_Hunt). The modern version was launched in July 2004 ‒ 180 years after the original ceased publication ‒ "to rehabilitate Romantic Liberalism and reinvigorate the public sphere".

Contributors to the print edition included [Harold Bloom](/source/Harold_Bloom), [Helen Suzman](/source/Helen_Suzman), [Christopher Hitchens](/source/Christopher_Hitchens), [Germaine Greer](/source/Germaine_Greer), [Garry Kasparov](/source/Garry_Kasparov), [Robert Reich](/source/Robert_Reich), [Julia Kristeva](/source/Julia_Kristeva), [Liu Xiaobo](/source/Liu_Xiaobo), [Johann Hari](/source/Johann_Hari), [Martin Rees](/source/Martin_Rees), [Wole Soyinka](/source/Wole_Soyinka), [Clive James](/source/Clive_James), [Slavoj Žižek](/source/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek) and [Simon Sebag Montefiore](/source/Simon_Sebag_Montefiore).

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.theliberal.co.uk The Liberal Online]

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