Illiberalism is winning right now. But there is nothing unusual about that. By modern standards, virtually every past society ...

JD Vance told Ole Miss students that America’s future relies on a strong Christian foundation and warned against the dangers ...

Across academia, government, and Silicon Valley, on social media, and in leading journals, intellectuals and political ...

The illiberal view of progress has a terrible record. Maximilien Robespierre, architect of the Terror, invoked Rousseau; ...

“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 ...

Arguably no contemporary scholar has thought more deeply about how liberalism as a political tradition and philosophy has been historically and structurally biased towards the socioeconomic interests ...

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 ...

Ideologies have ruled the social-intellectual landscape over the flow of time. The history of mankind can often be seen as ...

The problem with liberal individualism is that it is parasitic upon some preceding form of socialization, which it simultaneously undermines, thereby cutting off the branch it is sitting on. For ...

Reading Rosemary's double response to me Unselfish Individualism and Power and the Many, I'm reminded of a conference at which I heard Ernesto Laclau reply to a question about the differences between ...

Editor’s Note: William J. Bennett, a CNN contributor, is the author of “The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood.” He was U.S. secretary of education from 1985 to 1988 and director of the ...