This review presents a critical account of the most powerful critique of liberal political thought to have emerged in recent years: a critique it calls the 'politics of compulsion'. Drawing on the ...

This article examines Reinhold Niebuhr's contributions both to twentieth-century liberalism and to reflection on liberalism's relationship to political ethics. These contributions are, I argue, ...

Prof Michael Freeden delves into the nuances of liberalism and the underlying questions that often emerge in this discipline of political science.

Or the liberal politicians who supported all these movements with very general forms of legislation, like the Equality Act, whose exact intended effects were not always entirely clear?

Liberals are more likely to end relationships over politics than conservatives. This could be a "strategic mistake," one ...

How do we apply Liberalism in day-to-day politics? A thoughtful new book, When We Speak of Freedom, edited by Paul Hindley and Benjamin Wood, deserves more discussion here. The subtitle is ...

Is Liberalism a Politics of Fear? 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.

The term liberalism ranks among the most contested in our political lexicon. It should also be regarded as among the most vital. In the large sense, ...

To say the West’s turn to the anti-immigrant right was the predictable result of Merkel’s calamitous decision to open Germany ...

It is hard to find free-market think tanks which use the term capitalism in their name or even in their mission statement.

In his new book, Liberalism Against Itself, the Yale historian Samuel Moyn argues that at the very center of Cold War liberalism is a politics of fear—a fear that freedom might collapse into ...