This combination, a drastic transformation that feels organic rather than politically imposed, makes the rise of vice a ...

For quite a while now, intellectual movements have been nebulous things. This started with postmodernism, which everyone was ...

Sarah Thomas reviews Cass Sunstein’s new book On Liberalism, finding it worthwhile in articulating the meaning of liberalism ...

The idea of liberalism, at bottom, is about freedom and toleration. It is less a positive creed than a belief that private choices and opinions ought to be respected. The liberal does not find ...

“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 ...

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 ...

This week we move from a consideration of the main sources of classical liberalism to several more contemporary voices. While many authors might have been considered, I will focus on three main ...

Notre Dame professor Patrick Deneen has written a book vitally important for understanding the present crisis in Western politics. If this work had appeared two or three years ago, it still would have ...

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 ...

New Yorkers personalize everything, and the shutdown of traffic around town this week was put personally on the head of our visitor, Pope Francis. A certain amount of the normal exasperation felt at ...

The nice thing about the "Book of isms" is that it often provides definitions for pairs of frequently confused terms, such as behaviourism and behaviouralism. Herewith another distinction, one that ...

Here’s today’s quiz: What is American liberalism, and how is it doing? In response to the first half of the question, and bowing to the contemporary wisdom that anything can be reduced to the length ...