In contrast to the sociology of modern liberalism, classical liberalism was very much an ideology. Whether one reads Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, the Declaration of Independence or the preamble to the ...

The new right’s fomenting of contempt for all things liberal and the swelling antisemitism among its members are of a piece.

Arguably no contemporary scholar has thought more deeply about how liberalism as a political tradition and philosophy has been historically and structurally biased towards the socioeconomic interests ...

TYRANNY COMES in many guises. Sometimes it is in the obvious form of dictators who act outside the law and terrorise people to perpetuate their rule. But in less odious and visible forms, it can refer ...

America’s dual faith in individual liberty and democracy is under attack by the president’s populism. By James Traub Mr. Traub is a columnist at Foreign Policy magazine. As the author of a recent book ...

The following is an interview of Benjamin and Jenna Storey by Barton Swaim for The Wall Street Journal. Liberalism is in trouble. I don’t mean the narrow “liberalism” of the post-1960s Democratic ...

Yascha Mounk’s new book “The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time” arrives at a crucial juncture for American liberalism. In this timely and incisive work, Mounk confronts the rising ...

Writing a few weeks ago in the Detroit News, Hillsdale College student and Detroit News intern Kaylee McGhee offers an explanation for “Why Millennials Melt”: Millennials are in a constant contest to ...

Calvin in Hell, Egbert van Heemskerck the Younger (c.1700–10). (Photo by Fine Art Images / Heritage Images / Getty Images) “To understand Liberalism, we need to understand early modern Calvinism.” ...

If you’ve ever felt that your everyday life seems to be little more than never-ending chores, a growing to-do list, and endless Zoom meetings, you might be able to relate to the philosopher John Rawls ...

Values that later grew into liberalism began stirring in the epoch now known as The Enlightenment, starting more than three centuries ago, chiefly in England and France. It was an era when kings still ...