Meditating on the first and most simple operations of the human soul, I believe that I perceive in it two principles that are prior to reason, of which one makes us ardently interested in our ...

It was 1935, and Lawrence Dennis was sure that fascism was coming to America. He couldn’t wait. Dennis, a diplomat turned public intellectual, had just published an article in a leading political ...

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 ...

A liberalism that fails to answer the question of meaning opens the door to authoritarian temptation. Liberalism is often hailed as the great success story of modernity. It freed people from feudal ...

For several decades, Cass Sunstein has been one of the most prominent and prolific legal scholars in the United States. A onetime faculty member at the University of Chicago Law School, Sunstein ...

Boston Review recently hosted a virtual roundtable featuring contributors to a new collection of essays, Mastery and Drift: Professional-Class Liberals since the 1960s, published by University of ...

Liberalism is the political and social philosophy that promotes democracy, freedom, civil liberties, and limited government intervention. The goal of Christian Nationalism is to restrict freedom and ...

On July 4, 1776, the United States was born not just as a nation, but as an idea. It was the first country truly born of liberalism: a political philosophy rooted in individual rights, limited ...

Liberalism is the political and social philosophy that promotes democracy, freedom, civil liberties, and limited government intervention. The goal of Christian Nationalism is to restrict freedom and ...