Philosophers like Johann Gottleib Fichte, Georg Hegel and Slavoj Žižek argue that societies function as collective consciousnesses, shaped by historical and ideological conditions. Just as individuals ...

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The intelligentsia has to wake up to the fact that the chasm between them and the people creates the soil for the ascendancy ...

There is no simple opposition to be drawn between the liberal market order of the early 1800s and the supposedly more violent neoliberal state of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Coercive ...

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 ...

George Will asks in this new book, “The Conservative Sensibility,” the following question: What is it, exactly, that conservatives seek to conserve? His “concise but deceptively simple answer” is that ...

Matt McManus has been a unique Left writer for years, prominent for extensive reviews debunking various abjectly wretched conservative philosophical and political arguments. McManus takes reactionary ...

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 ...

Kevin M. Schultz is Chair of the Department of History at the University of Illinois Chicago, where he specialises in 20th- and 21st-century American history. In Why Everyone Hates White Liberals ...

This accords with recent scholarship showing that American political parties don’t have much ideological coherence around concepts such as “freedom” or “equality” but instead are more like social ...