Economist Daron Acemoglu wants liberal democracy to connect with working people’s material interests and political power. His ...

If liberal democracy is the pinnacle of political systems, as the political scientist Francis Fukuyama argued in his 1992 ...

Can we figure out how to better divide the spoils? Or will human ingenuity always be a mechanism for concentrating power?

It turns out most of us no longer believe in progress. And when that happens, it quickly becomes a crisis for societies like ours ...

The spate of books on conservatism and liberalism in America has resulted in debates about the respective merits of these allegedly opposing political creeds in which a great deal of semantic ...

“In the United States at this time,” Lionel Trilling asserted in 1950, “liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition.” A few years later, in his highly influential book ...

An effort to determine whether common ground can, or should, be found between factions of the left and right against liberalism. Tourists ride the Staten Island Ferry to get a view of the Statue of ...

It was mostly unforeseen, the sudden sense of exultation and exhalation mingled—a surging heart matched by a good, deep breath—that the Inauguration produced in so many. Even Bernie Sanders felt it, ...

Liberalism is the ordering principal of American life. It is American society’s foundational belief in self-governance, freedom of speech, and individual liberties. After the end of the Cold War, it ...

Governments can’t be indifferent to the moral and spiritual health of the governed. “Liberalism” is a word with many meanings, some compatible with Christianity, some arguably demanded by it. In its ...

Editor’s Note: William J. Bennett, a CNN contributor, is the author of “The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood.” He was U.S. secretary of education from 1985 to 1988 and director of the ...