If there’s one overarching story being told about the political trends of the past decade—about Brexit and Donald Trump, about an ascendant populism in Europe and South Asia, about the growing ...

“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.” But Moyn ...

I find debates over liberalism, post-liberalism, and political Catholicism both exhausted and exhausting. This weariness might puzzle readers who mainly associate my byline with precisely these ideas.

Many of the cornerstones of the postwar liberal order are being shattered. The focus of Donald Trump’s second presidency has ...

"Liberalism as a Way of Life," by Alexandre Lefebvre. Princeton University Press. 285 pages. $29.95 My favorite saying about my fellow Jews emphasizes not our tenacity or our piety but something much ...

In this spirited defense of liberalism, Lefebvre celebrates the ordinary, everyday virtues of life in a free and open society. Most people define liberalism by its core institutions, such as ...

The history of politics -- more, the history of human thinking -- is the history of words. Consider what happened to the word “liberal” in the United States. It has become a Bad Word for millions of ...

Today the State Department launches a two-day Summit For Democracy, featuring the participation of 110 invited countries from around the world (but not Hungary, because even though Hungary is a ...

For much of the twentieth century, the American right was suspiciously absent from historians’ grand narratives of the United States. In the early Cold War, social scientists and political theorists ...