I recently listened to a fascinating The Irish Times podcast interview between Hugh Linehan and Ronan McCrea, a law professor in the University College London and sometimes contributor to this ...

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 ...

We are living through an age of disruption. The post-war consensus that liberal democracy, free markets, and open societies were the “only game in town” has been steadily eroded by crisis after crisis ...

On October 4, Sanae Takaichi defeated Shinjiro Koizumi in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) runoff — a victory that positions her to become Japan’s first female prime minister and the most ...

Two years ago, Derek and DeAnna Huffman were desperate to leave Humble, a suburb of Houston. Their three daughters, they ...

Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election with 49.8% of the national popular vote — compared with 48.3% for Vice President Kamala Harris — and 312 electoral votes to Harris’ 226. In the 20 ...

Politicians sometimes do silly things to draw attention to their favorite issues. In 2015, then-Senator Jim Inhofe famously brought a snowball onto the floor of Congress to argue against the existence ...

While the Trump administration is notorious for its aggressive posturing on friendlier platforms such as X and his own Truth ...

Society and religion were born, the author argues, as “twins.” Though religion as we understand it today arrived late.

Between 2008 and 2010, polarization in society increased dramatically alongside a significant shift in social behavior: the ...