In the wake of the bloody French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, Germaine de Staël kept the ideas of freedom alive at her ...

From eugenics to segregation, the Pulitzer Prize winner says America's 'darker impulses' run deep.Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and University of ...

There is such a thing as a cosmopolitan conservative. When I want to discuss Dubai — and when do I not? — I have to turn to apolitical or right-leaning acquaintances. With liberals, the conversation ...

A self-processed former "punk" using her position to criticise the PM for wearing a Joy Division T-shirt is stupid-stupid, ...

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

A History of the Empty Self illuminates how our culture came to be unrecognizable to so many. As she tells it, the changes ...

Friday night in Washington DC and in an uber-modern mansion in the city’s ambassadorial quarter, the vibe is buzzing.

This was never going to last. Such seemingly stable orders never do. The centuries-long history of capitalism shows that economic regimes change drastically in ways that are never linear, but always ...

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 ...

In the words of former New York resident Donald J Trump, he is “a 100 per cent Communist Lunatic”, with poor dress sense and an irritating voice to boot.

Moderation isn't weakness. It's principled rebellion against a politics that rewards the loudest voices and punishes nuance.

By drawing on the country’s progressive tradition when it comes to women’s empowerment, Julia Ioffe makes a refreshing ...