Black History Month, in the words of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, is "a powerful symbolic celebration" of "the important role of Black History in pursuit of ...

The Liberal Democrat History Group’s fringe meeting at conference featured a fascinating discussion of the historical roots and present meaning of Liberalism. You can catch up on the meeting, which ...

Jane Goodall does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

This Saturday I’m appearing on a panel at the Organization of American Historians’ Annual Meeting in New York, with Dorothy Sue Cobble, Thomas Edsall, Michael Kazin, and Todd Gitlin, on “Does ...

The end of the Cold War was supposed to usher in a better world. After four decades of struggle, the great battle between liberalism and Bolshevism had ended in the former’s decisive victory. Many in ...

A conversation with Samuel Moyn about the Cold War’s profound and negative influence on the liberal worldview and his new book, Liberalism Against Itself. Before the First World War, to be a liberal ...

For several decades, Cass Sunstein has been one of the most prominent and prolific legal scholars in the United States. A onetime faculty member at the University of Chicago Law School, Sunstein ...

A third of the way through Regime Change (Sentinel), a table appears. The top two quadrants are "Progressive Liberal" and "Classical Liberal." The lower left is "Marxist." The lower right is blank.

LIBERALISM—the Enlightenment philosophy, not the American left—starts with the assertion that all human beings have equal moral worth. From that stem equal rights for all. Libertarians see those ...

If a neoconservative, as Irving Kristol once quipped, is a liberal mugged by reality, what should we make of Francis Fukuyama? In 1989, when Fukuyama published his landmark essay, “The End of History?

Dispassionate scholarly examinations of the political Right are unfortunately rare. For some scholars on the Left, the temptation to pathologize conservatives, to treat conservative resistance to ...