There are words we know, and there are words we argue about, working our way to a shared meaning. And then there is that unique category of terms that, once they appear, stubbornly refuse to succumb ...

“Cold War liberalism was a catastrophe — for liberalism,” Yale historian Samuel Moyn argues in his new book “Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times.” But Moyn ...

In this learned work, Fukuyama shows that liberalism’s great advantage over rival ideologies in the modern era has been its ability to create the political conditions that allow for the coexistence of ...

Regarding Jim O'Leary's letter of Feb. 12, I think a definition that most accurately describes the original meaning of liberal is this: "Having, expressing, or following views or policies that favor ...

“Liberalism made the modern world, but the modern world is turning against it,” an article in The Economist lamented last year, on the occasion of the magazine’s hundred-and-seventy-fifth anniversary.

Adrian Wooldridge’s “The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism” will be published on April 21. This op-ed was adapted from an article in UnHerd. The signs of liberalism’s senescence are ...

It is not at all clear whether contemporary liberalism, in its many modes of expression, has betrayed its own tradition in relation to religion or, rather, if what we are witnessing is a gradual and ...