The historical shortcomings of liberalism don’t mean that socialists should throw liberalism out wholesale. On the contrary: socialism needs liberalism. For many socialists, liberalism is at ...

This said, I don’t think liberalism is exceptional in its plight. And I have trouble seeing how an alarmist reading of contemporary conditions would necessarily lead one to embrace socialism ...

It starts like this: Western societies are in the midst of a growing “culture war” between cultural socialism and cultural liberalism. The two sides in this conflict only partly overlap with ...

Following the overtly anti-capitalist papacy of Pope Francis, one asks if Pope Leo XIV will follow his predecessor or steer ...

At the same time, half of Americans between 18 and 29 have a positive view of socialism. {mosads}It is not just that liberalism is under attack or losing adherents. It’s also that liberals are ...

Not the 3,000 percent attributable to liberalism, which continues to grow with no end in sight. The two bad ideas of 1755–1848 were nationalism and socialism. If you like them, perhaps you will ...

In the middle decades of the last century, British and American liberals—threatened first by socialism, then by totalitarianism in its various forms—gave liberalism a new legitimating canon.

But there are awful people who try to associate themselves with virtually any widely used ideological designation (conservatism, progressivism, socialism, etc.). If "classical liberal" avoids this ...

"Cold War liberalism was a catastrophe — for liberalism ... In critiquing the Soviet system, moreover, Kennan recognized that democratic socialism was not the same thing: "No sane person ...

The Cold War changed all that. It wasn’t just that socialism became a liberal swear word for decades (at least before Senator Bernie Sanders helped revive it). Liberals concluded that the ...

Being a young idealist, I first felt that the answers to the issues that we faced were through Socialism ... Now, as a Liberal, I believe the role of the government is to defend and expand ...

In his new book, “The Struggle for a Decent Politics,” the political philosopher Michael Walzer grapples with a definition. By James Traub When you purchase an independently reviewed book ...