A central character in the hit sitcom “Parks and Recreation” (2009-2015), Leslie Knope serves as deputy director of her office in the city hall of the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana. She is also a ...

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 ...

Liberalism and Its Discontents, by Francis Fukuyama (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 192 pp., $26) If liberal democracy is a second-best, fallback position that we endorse because the alternatives are ...

Liberalism is in crisis. Its defenders, who see liberalism as a bulwark against tyranny, fear that illiberalism now threatens to overwhelm liberal democracy. Its critics, who say liberalism is a ...

Liberalism is not merely one attractive option among many moral and political outlooks, according to Lefebvre, himself an unabashed liberal. He contends in his new book that contemporary liberalism ...