The most familiar argument explaining its demise is the Marxist one that liberalism is a ruling-class trick, and that the harsh realities of exploitation and imperialism underlie elites’ treacly words ...

The Supreme Court Takes Up a Vital, Slam-Dunk Immigration Case Fact: I Relentlessly Rebuked the Russiagate Probe, Beginning Before Mueller’s Appointment Audio By Carbonatix The editor of First Things ...

“In the United States at this time,” Lionel Trilling asserted in 1950, “liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition.” A few years later, in his highly influential book ...

The idea of liberalism, at bottom, is about freedom and toleration. It is less a positive creed than a belief that private choices and opinions ought to be respected. The liberal does not find ...

“The biggest difference between Alex Jones and Rachel Maddow is the haircut.” This funny line is from The Rise of BlueAnon: How the Democrats Became a Party of Conspiracy Theorists, a forthcoming book ...

Governments can’t be indifferent to the moral and spiritual health of the governed. “Liberalism” is a word with many meanings, some compatible with Christianity, some arguably demanded by it. In its ...

Sarah Thomas reviews Norberto Bobbio’s Liberalism and Democracy, appreciating its comprehensive intellectual history while ...

6Can Liberalism Stop Being So Darn ... Liberal? 7Liberalism Has the Ideas–but Does It Have the Will to Impose Them? View All The editors ask if today’s liberalism is equipped to win “this battle,” too ...

ARLINGTON, VA — The Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) today announced the launch of Liberalism.org, an online magazine dedicated to exploring, advancing, and revitalizing the liberal tradition. The ...

This week we move from a consideration of the main sources of classical liberalism to several more contemporary voices. While many authors might have been considered, I will focus on three main ...

“Suppose the election was declared free and fair,” American diplomat Richard Holbrooke worried of Bosnia in 1996, but the winners are “racists, fascists, separatists, who are publicly opposed to ...

Here’s today’s quiz: What is American liberalism, and how is it doing? In response to the first half of the question, and bowing to the contemporary wisdom that anything can be reduced to the length ...