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Libera Me (리베라 메)
Libera Me (리베라 메) is a 2000 South Korean fire-action film directed by Yang Yun-ho, starring Choi Min-soo, Cha Seung-won, and Yoo Ji-tae, about a Busan firefighter hunting a serial arsonist; it won Paeksang Grand Prize.
Liberace
Liberace (Władziu Valentino Liberace, 1919–1987) was an American pianist and entertainer of Italian-Polish parentage who fused classical piano with popular showmanship on The Liberace Show and in Las Vegas, famous for candelabra, sequined costumes, and record-breaking Radio City runs.
LiberAI (将闲科技)
LiberAI (将闲科技), formally Beijing Jiangxian Technology Co., Ltd., is a Chinese embodied-AI startup founded in December 2025 in Beijing by Liu Songming, developing physical world models for dexterous robotic manipulation.
Liberal Alliance (Brazil)
The Liberal Alliance (Aliança Liberal) was a Brazilian opposition coalition formed in 1929 to back Getúlio Vargas for president; its defeat led to the Revolution of 1930.
Liberal Arts (film)
Liberal Arts is a 2012 American comedy-drama written, directed by, and starring Josh Radnor, with Elizabeth Olsen, about a 35-year-old who returns to his Ohio college.
Liberal arts college
Liberal arts college: a U.S. private, usually small institution offering mainly undergraduate arts-and-sciences degrees, emphasizing undergraduate experience over graduate research; rooted in the medieval seven liberal arts, with Dutch adaptations and current closure pressures.
Liberal arts colleges in the United States
Liberal arts colleges in the United States, also called LACs, are undergraduate-focused institutions teaching humanities, sciences, and social sciences; 244 fit the Carnegie Baccalaureate Colleges category, with small classes and high graduate placement.
Liberal arts education
Liberal arts education: broad higher education across humanities, sciences, and social sciences, rooted in the classical trivium and quadrivium, centered in American colleges, with documented labor market and job-quality outcomes.
Liberal Christianity
Liberal Christianity, also called Modernist Christianity or Christian Modernism, is a family of Christian theologies that treats individual reason and religious experience, rather than external authority, as the starting point for interpreting the faith.
Liberal conservatism
Liberal conservatism, also called conservative liberalism, blends conservative tradition and hierarchy with liberal liberty, markets, and equality; rooted in Burke and Hayek, expressed by Christian Democracy and Cameron's Conservatives.
Liberal democracy
Liberal democracy: a regime combining free competitive elections with constitutional liberalism, rule of law, limited government, and protected civil liberties. Distinct from electoral democracy; measured by V-Dem's LDI; declined globally to 31 countries by 2025.
Liberal Democratic Party (Angola)
The Liberal Democratic Party (Partido Liberal Democrático) is a small Angolan liberal party founded by exiles in Lisbon, which held three seats from 1992 to 2008.
Liberal Democratic Party (Italy)
Liberal Democratic Party (Italy), Partito Liberal-Democratico: name shared by a current in the 1922 Italian Liberal Party, Lamberto Dini's Liberal Democrats founded 2007 from Italian Renewal, and the Liberal Democratici.
Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
Liberal Democratic Party (自由民主党, Jiminto, LDP), Japan's conservative ruling party founded 15 November 1955 by merging the Liberal Party and Japan Democratic Party; dominated postwar politics, led by Sanae Takaichi since 2025.
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (ЛДПР)
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR, ЛДПР), ultranationalist Russian party founded by Vladimir Zhirinovsky in 1989, registered 1991, led since 2022 by Leonid Slutsky; loyal pro-Kremlin Duma presence.
Liberal Democratic Party–Japan Innovation Party coalition
LDP–Japan Innovation Party (Nippon Ishin no Kai) coalition: Japan's governing alliance formed 20 October 2025 after Komeito's exit, making Sanae Takaichi the first female prime minister; minority government, 2026 snap election, 352 seats.
Liberal Democratic Party–Komeito coalition
LDP–Komeito coalition: governing alliance of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito (Soka Gakkai-backed), formed October 1999, renewed 2012, ended October 2025 over LDP political funds scandal; Komeito served as pacifist junior partner and electoral brake.
Liberal Democrats (UK)
The Liberal Democrats are a centrist UK political party founded in 1988 from the Liberal Party and SDP merger, rooted in the Whig tradition. Led by Ed Davey, it won 72 seats in 2024, supports electoral reform via STV, and counts over 90,000 members.
Liberal elite
Liberal elite, also called the liberal establishment or limousine liberals: educated, often urban advantaged people with liberal views, portrayed as out of touch; rooted in elite theory and central to populist people-versus-elite rhetoric.
Liberal Fascism
Liberal Fascism, Jonah Goldberg's 2008 book (subtitle: The Secret History of the American Left), argues fascism is a left-wing phenomenon rooted in progressivism; it was a bestseller but was heavily criticized by historians Paxton and Griffin.
Liberal feminism
Liberal feminism is a feminist tradition seeking women's equality through legal and political reform. Also called egalitarian-liberal feminism in philosophy, it spans Wollstonecraft, Mill, Friedan, and NOW, and is criticized by radical, socialist, and intersectional feminisms.
Liberal International
Liberal International (LI), formerly the Liberal World Union, is the world federation of liberal political parties, founded at Oxford in April 1947 with the Oxford Manifesto; it holds UN ECOSOC category II status and is led by President Karl-Heinz Paqué.
Liberal International membership in the Americas, Africa and Oceania
The list of Liberal International members in the Americas, Africa and Oceania covers member parties and their tiers, with Sub-Saharan Africa LI's largest base outside Europe.
Liberal internationalism
Liberal internationalism: foreign-policy tradition seeking a peaceful world order led by liberal democracies through multilateral institutions, from Kant and Wilson to the post-1945 UN, NATO, and Bretton Woods system, its crises, and realist critiques.
Liberal National Party of Queensland
Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP), conservative party formed 26 July 2008 by merger of the Queensland Liberal and National divisions; a federal Liberal division affiliated with the Nationals; won a record 78 of 89 seats in 2012.
Liberal parties in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa
Liberal parties in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa are few; the leading case is Tigray Democratic Solidarity (Simret), recognized by Ethiopia's election board in December 2025.
Liberal parties in Kenya
Liberal parties in Kenya are the Orange Democratic Movement, the Liberal Democratic Party, and the National Liberal Party, whose names overstate their actual ideological content.
Liberal parties of Central America and the Caribbean
The liberal parties of Central America took shape in the nineteenth century in conflict with Conservative rivals, producing liberal dictators such as Justo Rufino Barrios in Guatemala and Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua.
Liberal Party (Brazil, 2006)
Brazilian political party registered by the TSE on 19 December 2006 as Partido da República (PR), formed by the PL–PRONA merger; renamed Partido Liberal (PL) in 2019; number 22, led by Valdemar Costa Neto.
Liberal Party (Brazil)
The Liberal Party (Partido Liberal) was one of the two great parties of Brazil's empire, dating from 1837 and favoring provincial autonomy against the centralizing Conservative Party.