Twitter is a place for attention-addicted depressives to mine dopamine from pixels. So, it’s never been the happiest app on Earth. But in recent days, as the Delta variant spread through bastions of ...

Against Post-Liberalism by Paul Kelly; Post-Liberalism by Matt Sleat; and Liberal Democracy Battling for Survival: A Plan for ...

The overselling of the benefits of the earliest personal computers brought a new version of an old joke: What’s the difference between a computer salesman and some guy selling snake oil health tonics ...

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 ...

Lesson for you. In 2006 the Democrats took control over both houses of Congress. Until then the economy was doing great. The Democrats had complete control of everything for the first two years of ...

Every day the warnings grow more emphatic: Around the world, liberalism is in retreat. Populism, authoritarianism and nationalism are on the rise, and American hegemony is in decline. At home, too, ...

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 ...