"Cold War liberalism was a catastrophe — for liberalism," Yale historian Samuel Moyn argues in his new book "Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times." ...

Liberalism is under siege. It is not just a problem for America’s Democratic Party, which once again may face either losing an election to Donald Trump or claiming victory with a bare majority.

Liberalism "is a revolutionary doctrine that aims at the constant transformation of all aspects of human social organization," he says. Its "aim," he says, is "unceasing instability." ...

Media Former Canadian Liberal leader says liberalism went astray when they lost their ‘bulls--- detectors' 'We didn’t seem to notice that nonelite White people were threatened, even betrayed ...

This article appears in the May 15/22, 2023 issue.. Illustration by Victor Juhasz. Fifty years ago, William F. Buckley Jr. vowed not to read another book about liberalism until his mother wrote one.

Mark Fitzpatrick called the festival a success and said the racist comments made by a podcaster invited to the event were ...

Trilling began to mobilize Freud to reform liberalism in this way well before World War II, but he repeated these arguments over the next decade and throughout The Liberal Imagination, in which the ...

For the most part, “Liberalism Against Itself” is ambivalent about its cast of characters. Moyn musters grudging respect for everyone except Popper, whose abrupt shift from thoughtful ...

And liberalism has always had a difficulty with the nationalism question because it has a theory of the state. It has a theory of the good life. It doesn’t have a clear theory of membership.