Sarah Thomas reviews Norberto Bobbio’s Liberalism and Democracy, appreciating its comprehensive intellectual history while ...

The central question of politics is that of justice––the matter of the relation between the individual good and the common good. In modern politics, the common good seems to consist in “two principal ...

In this new translation of Raymond Aron’s last university lecture, delivered in 1978, France’s most renowned Cold War–era liberal thinker grandly reflects on the concept of liberty in Western ...

Liberty – Equality – Democracy: America and Americans are defined by their dedication to these founding principles–ideas that were fostered by the Enlightenment philosophers of the late 17 th – 18 th ...

Is America backsliding on liberty, equality? Editor: What is it that has made America great? I believe that the lofty and unusual ideals of liberty and equality are the hallmarks of this nation.

Few ideas have shaped the world more profoundly than democracy. It is a concept born in the dust of ancient city-states, refined through centuries of revolution and philosophical debate, and now ...

When I taught Contemporary Civilization, Columbia University’s core courses on political and moral philosophy from Plato through Freud, officially and awkwardly called “Introduction to Contemporary ...

Scheduled for publication on the 75th anniversary of the Black Thursday stock market crash, this closely argued treatise from University of Maryland political economist Alperovitz (The Decision to Use ...

Democracy is often imagined as something that collapses dramatically—through coups, crackdowns, or the suspension of ...

Sixteen months before Thomas Jefferson crafted the powerful words that would become our Declaration of Independence, he sat quietly in Richmond's St. John's Church, absorbing the oratory of Patrick ...