Liberal democracy and capitalism represented the terminus of millennia of ideological evolution. Nations such as the U.S. and the member states of the European Union he termed “posthistorical,” having ...

Trump’s electoral resurrection was, in part, a rejection of the intolerance which has come to be emblematic of American ...

There are occasions when I have the privilege and opportunity to listen to fascinating and extremely learned presentations from distinguished academics and scholars. On one such occasion, a couple of ...

Paradoxically, the very success of democratic systems may thus also sow the seeds of their potential undoing. This is a ...

Yet, Fukuyama’s argument is oddly straightforward and even uncontroversial. Liberal democracy’s two greatest ideological competitors—fascism and communism—had taken their best shot and missed.

Rauch said religion has merged with political and cultural forces, and this politicization has contributed to both the ...

On March 18, famed political scientist John Mearsheimer visited Swarthmore and spoke on liberal hegemony. Hosted by the Swarthmore Conservative ...

But democracy is, at its core, fundamentally an ethical relationship. Even in its most elementary form, elections, democracy ...