How the Meanings of "Liberal" and "Conservative" Have Changed




Words & Numbers show

Summary: Conservative and liberal: probably the two most commonly used words to describe a person’s political affiliations. The way that we’ve come to understand these terms currently has drifted pretty far afield of the way these words have been used previously. Join James Harrigan and Antony Davies as they get super-semantic about political labels and more on this week’s episode of Words and Numbers.