Americans aren’t used to having to defend democracy. It’s just been a given for so long. After all, it’s the country’s 249th ...

One minimal definition, at least as it applies to liberal democracy, is that liberalism seeks to preserve political and economic liberty within a majoritarian framework.

Shadi Hamid says Islam offers a politics of meaning that the West lacks Islam vs. Liberal Democracy - The American Conservative Politics Foreign Affairs Culture Fellows Program Login ...

Furthermore, imposing Western-style liberal democracy on other nations (who were understandably uncertain it was a good idea) — through coercion and bribery and outright force, if necessary ...

While liberal democracy as we understand it emanates from the West, that does not mean it should be confined to Europe and the Americas. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.

In this age of noisy populist movements, many commentators tend to see anti-immigration sentiment as a threat to democracy itself. “The Muslim ban will make us less safe; worse, it erodes our ...

Some of my more libertarian-leaning friends -- and in our shared desire to defend liberal democracy, we are friends -- would define it as excluding various forms of regulation and redistribution.

He understands — as does Ryszard Legutko — that the globalists and establishmentarians use the language, concepts, and institutions of liberal democracy to mean something else.

FUKUYAMA: Well, I think Russia is the prime case of the democratic part of a liberal democracy turning against the liberal part, meaning that, you know, Putin is very popular.

Kids Have No Place in a Liberal Democracy. In liberalism, as in life, children throw things into chaos and uproar. By Elizabeth Bruenig. ... obligates others to them—meaning, ...

Liberal democracy, Orban continued, is liberal, while Christian democracy is, by definition, not liberal: it is, if you like, illiberal. And we can specifically say this in connection with a few ...