Liberalism in the philosophical sense is the broad family of political doctrines that center on equality and freedom: holding ...

"Cold War liberalism was a catastrophe — for liberalism," Yale historian Samuel Moyn argues in his new book "Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times." ...

The tenor of J. Gerald Kennedy’s recent letter stipulating that liberalism is more prevalent on college campuses because it is somehow more intellectual illustrates the real problem.

On July 4, 1776, the United States was born not just as a nation, but as an idea. It was the first country truly born of ...

This article appears in the May 15/22, 2023 issue.. Illustration by Victor Juhasz. Fifty years ago, William F. Buckley Jr. vowed not to read another book about liberalism until his mother wrote one.

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Liberalism is under siege. It is not just a problem for America’s Democratic Party, which once again may face either losing an election to Donald Trump or claiming victory with a bare majority.

And liberalism has always had a difficulty with the nationalism question because it has a theory of the state. It has a theory of the good life. It doesn’t have a clear theory of membership.

The tenor of J. Gerald Kennedy’s recent letter stipulating that liberalism is more prevalent on college campuses because it is somehow more intellectual illustrates the real problem.