There was a time when both major political parties had a substantial number of liberals and conservatives. But over the course of the lifetime of everyone reading this column today, liberals have ...

Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought by Bruno Leipold Princeton University Press, 2024, 440 pp. The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism by ...

Very often bad and failed ideas do not die, they simply reappear during periods of supposed social and political crisis in slightly different intellectual garb, and offer “solutions” that would merely ...

David Brooks reviews Patrick Deneen’s new book Why Liberalism Failed. He lays out Deneen’s argument, then comments, in part: Deneen’s book is valuable because it focuses on today’s central issue. The ...

Bernie Sanders is the most popular politician in the country, and the DSA convention just made national news. But U.S. socialism has to find a viable path to power. In the early 1970s, I was a ...

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, ...

A recent Gallup poll shows that nearly four-in-ten Americans consider themselves conservative on social issues, up four points since last year and at a decade-long high. But the topline data doesn’t ...

Between the Great Lisbon Earthquake and the revolutionary year of 1848 the European chattering classes had three big ideas. One was very, very good. The other two were very, very bad. We're still ...