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." ...

Trilling began to mobilize Freud to reform liberalism in this way well before World War II, but he repeated these arguments over the next decade and throughout The Liberal Imagination, in which the ...

There is plenty of talk of threats to 'Our Democracy,' but what is really in danger today is the classical liberal tradition of natural rights.

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.

But liberalism has more distinct connotations; and upon them hang all the issues of contemporary political controversy. One of these connotations arises out of the history of technical societies ...

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.

In “Liberalism as a Way of Life,” Alexandre Lefebvre attempts to resuscitate the ethos in the face of attacks from the right and left. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.