This combination, a drastic transformation that feels organic rather than politically imposed, makes the rise of vice a ...

Erik Matson reflects on John Callanan’s new book about Bernard Mandeville, and the controversial theories that he promoted in ...

Liberalism is in crisis. Its defenders, who see liberalism as a bulwark against tyranny, fear that illiberalism now threatens to overwhelm liberal democracy. Its critics, who say liberalism is a ...

Does she oppose Enlightenment virtues, as her X posts suggest? Or is she just confused?

Liberalism and Its Discontents, by Francis Fukuyama (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 192 pp., $26) If liberal democracy is a second-best, fallback position that we endorse because the alternatives are ...

“Cold War liberalism was a catastrophe — for liberalism,” Yale historian Samuel Moyn argues in his new book “Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times.” But Moyn ...

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 ...

Looking for common ground with liberalism. Like many good books, this is an act of faith. It has faith that secular liberals will listen to a religious voice, hear its consonances with theirs, and be ...

Let me say from the get-go that, for me, liberalism is as good as it gets for the political order. A politics that is not liberal is a loss for human flourishing. Patrick Deneen's "postliberal" ...

The Republican National Convention went off with little controversy, so naturally liberal media and the Democratic Party have rushed to embrace every ridiculous conspiracy theory that floats by on ...

Abortion rights demonstrators rally to mark the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Dobbs v. Women’s Health Organization case in June. In my column last week, I took a tour of mostly ...