Liberalism

One neighborhood in New York has elected so many democratic socialists—including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani—that people have started calling it “the People’s Republic.”

The writer is known for her acerbic criticism of liberals. Is she one herself?

In the age of social media, every politician who has to stand in front of a camera after a tragedy turns into just another battle site in an endless culture war.

Brian Jordan Alvarez’s new FX comedy tackles hot-button issues with a satisfying mix of earnestness and irreverence.

The West’s favored form of self-government is looking creaky. A legal scholar and a philosopher propose some alternatives.

The political theorist’s latest undertaking is to make the case for liberalism amid various accounts of its decline.

The world’s biggest colonial power prided itself on being a liberal democracy. Was this part of the problem?

A new book, “American Shtetl,” charts how a group of ultra-Orthodox Jews created a separatist territory in upstate New York.

As an attorney, Derrick Bell worked on many civil-rights cases, but his doubts about their impact launched a groundbreaking school of thought.

The movement’s architects saw the inadequacy of liberal solutions to racial injustice. Yet the term has become a lullaby by which liberals self-soothe.

The election of Joe Biden was a vindication of the view that the strength of liberal democracy lies only in the strength of liberal institutions.

The writer discusses what the Harper’s letter aimed to accomplish, his concerns about Black Lives Matter, Twitter, and the media’s focus on COVID-19 mortality rates among people of color.

Founded in 1843 to spread the doctrine of laissez-faire, the magazine has wielded influence like no other. But at what cost?

They were essential social institutions of political modernity—caffeinated pathways out of clan society and into a cosmopolitan world.

The political scientist argues that the desire of identity groups for recognition is a key threat to liberalism.

Resistance must take the form of the affirmation of the values and institutions that the President has scorned and threatened.

With his nativist and purely transactional view of politics, he threatens to be democracy’s most reckless caretaker.

Three new books interrogate the premises of the Enlightenment.