Sarah Thomas reviews Norberto Bobbio’s Liberalism and Democracy, appreciating its comprehensive intellectual history while ...

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, ...

My column last weekend made some pretty sweeping historical claims: that the re-election of Donald Trump proved that we have definitively exited the post-Cold War era, that the phase of history that ...

The health of global democracy is regressing to Cold War-era levels. For the average global citizen, democracy is now back ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each of these incidents could be viewed in isolation as discrete policy disputes or passing political storms. But beneath them ...

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 ...

I think liberals need a reality check. Most of us still believe liberalism and democracy are the same thing. The terms used to be synonymous. From the 1960s to the 2010s, you could use them ...

“The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top ...

It’s been 10 years since Angela Merkel, as German chancellor, memorably declared “Wir schaffen das” — “We can do this” — in the face of the mass migration crisis sweeping Europe. Last week The Wall ...

In 2023, David P. Gushee published Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies. Gushee’s diagnosis was familiar – that conservative and fundamentalist White Christian movements in America and ...

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 ...