The Liberal Democrat History Group’s fringe meeting at conference featured a fascinating discussion of the historical roots and present meaning of Liberalism. You can catch up on the meeting, which ...

Tolerance is usually regarded as “the quintessential liberal value.” This position is supported by a standard liberal history that views religious toleration as emerging from the post-Reformation wars ...

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 ...

A third of the way through Regime Change (Sentinel), a table appears. The top two quadrants are "Progressive Liberal" and "Classical Liberal." The lower left is "Marxist." The lower right is blank.

Only in the United States is "liberal" a label for someone soft on communism, national defense and crime. The Liberal Democrats in the United Kingdom occupy the center between Labour on the left and ...

Not to pile on, but there’s also this, in the new Democracy. Unlike the aforementioned TLS essay, the whole thing is online; here’s a short excerpt: The single moment that made postwar liberalism feel ...

In 2017, Samuel Moyn, a left-wing Yale professor of law and history, co-wrote a New York Times op-ed headlined, “Trump Isn’t a Threat to Our Democracy. Hysteria Is.” In the essay, Moyn diagnosed ...

In early 2023, Palgrave Macmillan will publish my latest book, Climate Liberalism: Perspectives on Liberty, Property and Pollution, an edited volume that will be part of the Palgrave Studies in ...