ARLINGTON, VA — The Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) today announced the launch of Liberalism.org, an online magazine dedicated to exploring, advancing, and revitalizing the liberal tradition. The ...

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 ...

Governments can’t be indifferent to the moral and spiritual health of the governed. “Liberalism” is a word with many meanings, some compatible with Christianity, some arguably demanded by it. In its ...

“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 ...

Here’s today’s quiz: What is American liberalism, and how is it doing? In response to the first half of the question, and bowing to the contemporary wisdom that anything can be reduced to the length ...

My favorite saying about my fellow Jews emphasizes not our tenacity or our piety but something much more important: our passion for disagreement. “Two Jews, three opinions,” a rabbi once told me ...

This week we move from a consideration of the main sources of classical liberalism to several more contemporary voices. While many authors might have been considered, I will focus on three main ...

6Can Liberalism Stop Being So Darn ... Liberal? 7Liberalism Has the Ideas–but Does It Have the Will to Impose Them? View All The editors ask if today’s liberalism is equipped to win “this battle,” too ...

In other words, Andy and Mandy are scapegoats. We condemn them with special force, in order to reassert the moral code that ...

Notre Dame professor Patrick Deneen has written a book vitally important for understanding the present crisis in Western politics. If this work had appeared two or three years ago, it still would have ...

TYRANNY COMES in many guises. Sometimes it is in the obvious form of dictators who act outside the law and terrorise people to perpetuate their rule. But in less odious and visible forms, it can refer ...

“Suppose the election was declared free and fair,” American diplomat Richard Holbrooke worried of Bosnia in 1996, but the winners are “racists, fascists, separatists, who are publicly opposed to ...