In the Orwellian newspeak of contemporary American politics, some opponents of liberty sometimes cloak themselves in the mantle of "liberalism," in a brazen display of conceptual gerrymandering (pp. 1.3:46-7) that has remained unchallenged even by some of their uninformed opponents. The correct meaning of the term is illustrated well by the courageous and progressive defenders of the free market in nineteenth-century Britain, who struggled against the entrenched special interests seeking to maintain power, special privilege, and the status quo through coercive intervention.