By contrast, Alexis de Tocqueville was a proud member of the French aristocracy. Liberalism tends to be marinated in optimism ...
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, a little-known Sovietologist and deputy director of the State Department’s Office of Policy Planning, published an article in a Washington journal, The National Interest, ...
Even in some of the world’s sturdiest democracies, leaders are deliberately undermining courts to weaken checks on their ...
John Owen will deliver the keynote lecture for the 2025 Grawemeyer Awards Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Chao Auditorium in the Ekstrom Library on U of L's Belknap campus. He spoke with LPM's Bill Burton ...
In advance of The Stanfield Conversation, CBC asked current Dalhousie University students to answer questions on the topic: ...
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The rise of social democracy

There was a time when politics was simply a struggle for power, especially in the Philippines. Political parties in this country had no ideology at all.
Amid a swirl of high-stakes political standoffs from Sacramento to Washington, the future of U.S. politics and democracy has ...
Fascism is an ultra-nationalist political ideology that rejects liberal democracy and values nation and race over the individual. It is strict ...
It’s been 10 years since Angela Merkel, as German chancellor, memorably declared “Wir schaffen das” — “We can do this” — in the face of the mass migration crisis sweeping Europe. Last week The Wall ...
It’s been 10 years since Angela Merkel, as German chancellor, memorably declared “Wir schaffen das” — “We can do this” — in the face of the mass migration crisis sweeping Europe. Last week The Wall ...