The idea of liberalism, at bottom, is about freedom and toleration. It is less a positive creed than a belief that private choices and opinions ought to be respected. The liberal does not find ...

The spate of books on conservatism and liberalism in America has resulted in debates about the respective merits of these allegedly opposing political creeds in which a great deal of semantic ...

“In the United States at this time,” Lionel Trilling asserted in 1950, “liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition.” A few years later, in his highly influential book ...

Clifford Orwin is a Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto. These days, everybody is worried about populism. Its rise throughout the world, but ...

Arguably no contemporary scholar has thought more deeply about how liberalism as a political tradition and philosophy has been historically and structurally biased towards the socioeconomic interests ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio travelled to Munich this month and articulated a possible foundation for a deeper ...

An effort to determine whether common ground can, or should, be found between factions of the left and right against liberalism. Tourists ride the Staten Island Ferry to get a view of the Statue of ...

From the always thoughtful and readable Jonathan Rauch, in Persuasion; some excerpts, though the whole thing is much worth reading: Never in my lifetime have critiques of Locke, Smith, Mill, the ...

Liberalism is the ordering principal of American life. It is American society’s foundational belief in self-governance, freedom of speech, and individual liberties. After the end of the Cold War, it ...

I have looked at the glass of liberalism and seen it as half-full. If we are ever going to change our societies for the better, it will be as advocates of the best of the liberal tradition. I am in ...