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 ...

Now, of course, what we mean by Liberalism here is not progressivism, woke-ism, or anything else your typical right-wing radio host—or left-wing MSNBC host—means by liberalism.

Someone fetch a doctor. Liberalism is dying again. Liberalism is always dying. It was dying in December 1943, when Franklin Roosevelt told reporters that “Dr. New Deal” had been replaced by ...

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.

Liberalism’s ancestry has been traced back to John Locke’s writings on individual reason, Adam Smith’s economic theory, and the empiricism of David Hume, ...

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.

As liberalism has progressed, it has done so by ever more efficiently liberating each individual from “particular places, relationships, memberships, and even identities — unless they have ...

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.