Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, a little-known Sovietologist and deputy director of the State Department’s Office of Policy Planning, ...

He’s the author of the best-selling book “Why Nations Fail” and the forthcoming work “What Happened to Liberal Democracy?”.

For all its troubles, no system better protects free markets, freedom of thought and a social order.

Most Americans say democracy in the United States used to be a good example for other countries to follow but has not been in ...

Without appeals to Christianity, how is person freedom justified? You can save this article by registering for free here. Or ...

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Europe can no longer assume the United States’ commitment to a liberal international order. What survived the end of the Cold War as a bipartisan consensus is unraveling, not solely because of Donald ...

Prior to Kanye West, Lawrence Dennis was America’s most famous Black fascist. Born in 1893, Dennis had European features and light skin that allowed him to pass for white, which he did for nearly his ...

Just as liberals in the last twenty years have conflated the terms "equality" and "equity", they are confused about the meaning of "democracy". Conservatives understand that America is founded on a ...

Ben Ansell is a professor of comparative democratic institutions at the University of Oxford's Nuffield College. He is a fellow of the British Academy and the host of the What's Wrong with Democracy?

Australia is one of the world’s leading democracies, but we’re not immune from the pressures causing backsliding overseas.

Katie Miller, the conservative podcaster, former DOGE aide, and wife to Stephen Miller, thinks the Constitution and the philosophical tradition upon which it is based are “woke” nonsense. Or possibly ...