A central character in the hit sitcom “Parks and Recreation” (2009-2015), Leslie Knope serves as deputy director of her office in the city hall of the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana. She is also a ...

“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 ...