The Colloque Lippmann endorsed a revised liberalism without specifying its content.

Evidence

The participants in the conference were committed to the rehabilitation of the market mechanism and to the advocacy of a social structure that preserved— with some necessary caveats and limitations— a general framework for free discussion and exchange. But they largely agreed that the previous philosophical vehicle for this system of beliefs, which they alternately described as “liberalism” or “laissezfaire,” had proved itself unsustainable as an abstract framework for the ordering of social interaction. They were therefore committed to the idea of a “revised,” “progressive,” “constructive,” “new” liberalism without having yet identifi ed precisely what the revisions entailed. Much as Lippmann, in The Good Society, struggled to outline a “positive” program that did not seem to advocate the policies that his critique of socialism condemned, the participants in the “Colloque Lippmann” had diffi culties identifying constructive “revisions” that did not violate the philosophy they were attempting to save. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 187

Categorization

• QUESTION: What specific ‘revisions’ were eventually settled on, and when did the content solidify? Worth chasing through later chapters of this book.
• XREF: connects to: The Colloque Lippmann’s purpose was agenda-setting, not settled doctrine. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 192

Broader Connections

• The Colloque Lippmann’s purpose was agenda-setting, not settled doctrine. #corroborates (0.85) — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 192