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 ...

What even is “liberty”? These are the fundamentals of Classical and Modern Liberalism. Liberty and the rights of individuals form the backbone of American politics. But what is “liberty” anyway? In ...

In 1982 Ronald Steel won the National Book Award for his voluminous biography of the long-lived public intellectual Walter Lippmann (1889–1974), whose career as a journalist and author of middlebrow ...

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What is liberalism? If you’re asking Harvard government professor emeritus Harvey Mansfield, the question doesn’t have just one answer. At a Nov. 3 talk at Dartmouth, Mansfield told students that ...

Prior to Kanye West, Lawrence Dennis was America’s most famous Black fascist. Born in 1893, Dennis had European features and light skin that allowed him to pass for white, which he did for nearly his ...

BARACK Obama might be exactly what his supporters suppose him to be. Not, however, for reasons most Americans will celebrate. Obama might be the fulfillment of modern liberalism. Explaining why many ...

The United States has been a major proponent and defender of liberal values globally, although its commitment to upholding these values has fluctuated over time. Since the 1930s, modern liberalism in ...