For years, a rumor has spread that former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, a Republican, said, "If fascism comes to America, ...
The allegedly free individual of capitalist individualism, who has been provoked into being at odds with society, essentially ...
Illiberalism is winning right now. But there is nothing unusual about that. By modern standards, virtually every past society was illiberal. That we now call them illiberal, that exclusion and ...
The illiberal view of progress has a terrible record. Maximilien Robespierre, architect of the Terror, invoked Rousseau; ...
Across academia, government, and Silicon Valley, on social media, and in leading journals, intellectuals and political ...
JD Vance told Ole Miss students that America’s future relies on a strong Christian foundation and warned against the dangers ...
“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 ...
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 ...
As a progressive, I’m often asked if there is a real difference between progressivism and liberalism, or if progressivism is merely a nicer-sounding term for the less popular L-word. Even as the word ...
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 ...