How are the Millers going to defend Western civilization if they don't know the name of its defining philosophy?

Conventional wisdom tells us the liberal democracies are the most peace-loving nations. But the record tells us something ...

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 ...

“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 ...

We found that Harry Potter fans tend to be more accepting of those who are different, to be more politically tolerant, to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Yorkers personalize everything, and the shutdown of traffic around town this week was put personally on the head of our visitor, Pope Francis. A certain amount of the normal exasperation felt at ...

It’s Time to Ditch ‘Disparate Impact Theory’ — and Biden’s Weaponization of Civil Rights Law Let the Pro-Life Movement Declare Independence Education Remains the Key to Good Citizenship Pro-Lifers ...

Histories of the idea of liberalism usually begin in the seventeenth century with the philosopher taken to be its patron saint, John Locke. In the aftermath of the wars of religion, the story goes, ...

As a theological force in America, Protestant liberalism is now open to increasing fragmentation. Liberal frontiers are in a fluid state; nobody seems able to chart lines of fixed differentiation ...