In today's post, I will present a general theory of liberalism and conservatism that incorporates modern social science research. I will begin with examples of liberal and conservative attitudes in ...

The Ideas That Conquered the World Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century by Michael Mandelbaum Public Affairs, 512 pp., $30 DID SEPTEMBER 11 change anything? Do the terrorist ...

I sometimes marvel that liberalism manages to hold its own in this, or really any, country. Its insistence upon openness to change and new ways of thinking is, let’s admit it, a pretty large boulder ...

Give liberalism credit. It takes a lot to bring together high-brow intellectuals of the postliberal right and the postmodern-progressive left. Yet they make common cause, if largely unbeknownst to ...

6Can Liberalism Stop Being So Darn ... Liberal? 7Liberalism Has the Ideas–but Does It Have the Will to Impose Them? View All The editors ask if today’s liberalism is equipped to win “this battle,” too ...