The Liberal

{{Short description|Magazine}}

{{Infobox newspaper

| name= The Liberal

| image = Theliberal cover 10.jpg

| type = 'Poetry, Politics, Culture'

| foundation = December 2004

| ceased publication = 2009 (print)

| owners = The Liberal Publications, Ltd.

| editor = 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{{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}} 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. Ideologically, The Liberal challenged the concept of 'liberalisms', arguing for the continuity of the liberal tradition, which finds its modern expression in social liberalism.{{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}}

The title claimed a lineage with The Liberal, a short-lived periodical founded in 1822 by the Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron and 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, Helen Suzman, Christopher Hitchens, Germaine Greer, Garry Kasparov, Robert Reich, Julia Kristeva, Liu Xiaobo, Johann Hari, Martin Rees, Wole Soyinka, Clive James, Slavoj Žižek and Simon Sebag Montefiore.