Liberalism is the political and social philosophy that promotes democracy, freedom, civil liberties, and limited government intervention. The goal of Christian Nationalism is to restrict freedom and ...

There are words we know, and there are words we argue about, working our way to a shared meaning. And then there is that unique category of terms that, once they appear, stubbornly refuse to succumb ...

The Strengthening Australian Democracy report released by Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil this week provides a sophisticated diagnosis of the challenges facing democratic governance around the ...

Donald Trump exposed his profound condescension and blatant manipulation with the notorious 2016 declaration, “I love the poorly educated.” Election results and polling data consistently show that the ...

Part 3 of TED Radio Hour episode What Topples Democracies. Democracy is being challenged around the world. Political scientist Yascha Mounk says that to fight for democracy, we need to take a hard ...

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 ...

I previously posted about my draft chapter on "Land-Use Regulation" for the forthcoming forthcoming Routledge Handbook on Classical Liberalism (edited by Richard Epstein, Liya Palagashvili, and Mario ...

There is a clear and present danger to American democracy: Donald Trump’s populist authoritarianism. This is no secret, and yet many in higher education would prefer not to talk about it. Instead, we ...

Ersatz intellectual right-wing icons Adrian Vermeule (clockwise from left), Patrick Deneen and Yoram Hazony constitute a new vanguard of anti-liberalism (in the classical sense), challenging the ...