In “Totalitarianism and the Role of Intellectuals” (The Review, May 9), Paul Berman advocates a two-pronged approach to fighting what he claims is the premier threat to liberalism -- so-called “Muslim ...

The Ideas That Conquered the World Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century by Michael Mandelbaum Public Affairs, 512 pp., $30 DID SEPTEMBER 11 change anything? Do the terrorist ...

In today's post, I will present a general theory of liberalism and conservatism that incorporates modern social science research. I will begin with examples of liberal and conservative attitudes in ...

When I taught Contemporary Civilization, Columbia University’s core courses on political and moral philosophy from Plato through Freud, officially and awkwardly called “Introduction to Contemporary ...

In 2023, meeting liberalism’s goals requires building lots of stuff. Progressives want to swiftly decarbonize the U.S. economy without lowering Americans’ living standards. That entails rapidly ...

A conversation with Samuel Moyn about the Cold War’s profound and negative influence on the liberal worldview and his new book, Liberalism Against Itself. Before the First World War, to be a liberal ...

WASHINGTON -- During the campus convulsions of the late 1960s, when rebellion against any authority was considered obedience to every virtue, the film "To Die in Madrid," a documentary about the ...