In contrast to the sociology of modern liberalism, classical liberalism was very much an ideology. Whether one reads Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, the Declaration of Independence or the preamble to the ...

To the editor — Being labeled “conservative” seems to be akin to having leprosy today. OK then, how has liberalism improved our nation? From what I could find, modern liberalism began in the late 19th ...

The president’s signature legislative achievement, the Affordable Care Act, is in serious trouble. As a result, so is modern liberalism. The problems with Obamacare are increasingly obvious, beginning ...

Harvard professor Harvey Mansfield discussed the evolution of liberalism in American politics at a Nov. 3 Rocky talk.

Arguably no contemporary scholar has thought more deeply about how liberalism as a political tradition and philosophy has been historically and structurally biased towards the socioeconomic interests ...

TYRANNY COMES in many guises. Sometimes it is in the obvious form of dictators who act outside the law and terrorise people to perpetuate their rule. But in less odious and visible forms, it can refer ...

The Cunning of Freedom: Saving the Self in an Age of False Idols, by Ryszard Legutko, (Encounter Books: January, 2021), 194 pages, $22.95. Following the @realDonaldTrump and Parler bans, Big Tech ...

The worst thing that probably ever happened to author Bret Easton Ellis is the success of Less Than Zero, his 1985 debut novel. Ellis was 21 years old when the book became a sensation, hitting the ...

Writing a few weeks ago in the Detroit News, Hillsdale College student and Detroit News intern Kaylee McGhee offers an explanation for “Why Millennials Melt”: Millennials are in a constant contest to ...

Don’t get it twisted, in terms of the progressive silence on the new Cold War. For nearly a century, commentators have closely associated liberalism with progressivism. For instance, in a 1931 piece ...

Values that later grew into liberalism began stirring in the epoch now known as The Enlightenment, starting more than three centuries ago, chiefly in England and France. It was an era when kings still ...