I assume the title of Deirdre N. McCloskey’s “Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All” (Yale, 384 pages, $28) is meant as a riposte to the ...

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 ...

Meditating on the first and most simple operations of the human soul, I believe that I perceive in it two principles that are prior to reason, of which one makes us ardently interested in our ...

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 ...

Francis Fukuyama’s new book joins several from recent years in defining liberalism and arguing for its continued relevance. By Jennifer Szalai Last week, I had the surreal experience of reading my way ...

Mr. Acemoglu, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2024. With President Trump back in the White House, it should be ...

Across academia, government, and Silicon Valley, on social media, and in leading journals, intellectuals and political leaders are openly debating what comes after liberalism. Yet inside the military ...

The liberal-fundamentalist debate of the first half of this century has for all practical purposes reached a stalemate. Yet it appears that the issues will not subside. One’s sympathies may rest with ...

LONDON, July 19. /TASS/. UK Prime Minister Theresa May came up with a "narrow definition" of liberalism in her indirect debate about the future of the liberal idea with Russian President Vladimir ...