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

Since Trump was first elected president in 2016, the appalling spectacle of the current administration has hidden the rise of a less pronounced group of ...

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 ...

As illiberalism encroaches from the left and right, it’s good to remember how deeply liberal our American constitutional foundation really is.

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 ...

6Can Liberalism Stop Being So Darn ... Liberal? 7Liberalism Has the Ideas–but Does It Have the Will to Impose Them? View All The editors ask if today’s liberalism is equipped to win “this battle,” too ...

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 ...

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 ...