In today's post, I will present a general theory of liberalism and conservatism that incorporates modern social science research. I will begin with examples of liberal and conservative attitudes in ...

The Ideas That Conquered the World Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century by Michael Mandelbaum Public Affairs, 512 pp., $30 DID SEPTEMBER 11 change anything? Do the terrorist ...

Give liberalism credit. It takes a lot to bring together high-brow intellectuals of the postliberal right and the postmodern-progressive left. Yet they make common cause, if largely unbeknownst to ...

From Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals), which was published last month by the University of Chicago Press. In February 1949, Bill Atwood, a young journalist for the New York ...

This accords with recent scholarship showing that American political parties don’t have much ideological coherence around concepts such as “freedom” or “equality” but instead are more like social ...