Using his thought experiment of adopting a “veil of ignorance”, John Rawls advocated for basic liberties and redistribution to benefit the least well-off. Robert Nozick opposed this view, arguing for ...

You might wonder if there's any point in even trying to define liberalism. Efforts to do so seem bound to fail. From the start, its meaning has been elusive and in flux. Today, no right-thinking ...

It took mere minutes after Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) emerged as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate for Republicans to settle on a line of attack: He’s a far-left politician who would join ...

Robert Siegel speaks with The New Republic editor Franklin Foer about the new book Insurrections of the Mind, a collection of seminal essays from... 100 Years Ago, 'New Republic' Helped Define Modern ...