Then again, it suggests how far the most self-consciously avant-garde of them have moved from what was once the liberal consensus on racial politics.

These days, though, Denmark's long postwar liberal consensus is much less of a sure thing.

But there was a broad liberal consensus in Australia that took democracy and fairness for granted.

And wherever that liberal consensus comes from, it is available to all of us, whether we are religious or not.

The Western liberal consensus believed that with education, society and politics would become more rational and united.

Thomas led his last presidential campaign in 1948, after which he became a critical supporter of the postwar liberal consensus.

The combination of liberal consensus and helplessness made serious policy debate seem irrelevant.

As the war became the leading political issue of the day, agreement on domestic matters was not enough to hold the liberal consensus together.

During the Nixon years (and through the 1970s), the liberal consensus began to come apart.

Perennial coalition governments there have always been built around a liberal consensus.