There are words we know, and there are words we argue about, working our way to a shared meaning. And then there is that unique category of terms that, once they appear, stubbornly refuse to succumb ...

Despite the recent political and civic turmoil, Americans must recommit to the core tenets of democratic liberalism in order to ensure a free and open society, individual liberty, and equality under ...

Don’t count liberalism out in 2024. I know it’s a Rodney Dangerfield political philosophy—meek and mild, self-deprecating, it gets no respect—but battle-hardened post-Trump liberals have proved tough ...

My column last weekend made some pretty sweeping historical claims: that the re-election of Donald Trump proved that we have definitively exited the post-Cold War era, that the phase of history that ...

Just as liberals in the last twenty years have conflated the terms "equality" and "equity", they are confused about the meaning of "democracy". Conservatives understand that America is founded on a ...

Opinion: The great capitulation is over. This should be the year that liberal democracy fights back, in earnest.

Ben Ansell is a professor of comparative democratic institutions at the University of Oxford's Nuffield College. He is a fellow of the British Academy and the host of the What's Wrong with Democracy?

America is a liberal democracy. Its greatest blessing is freedom, the right to live and act in accordance with one’s conscience. This freedom unleashes boundless energy and creativity, and, along with ...

In East and Southeast Asia, democracy must be understood within the region’s unique political, historical and economic contexts. While liberal values are present, many citizens prioritise stability, ...

In 2023, David P. Gushee published Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies. Gushee’s diagnosis was familiar – that conservative and fundamentalist White Christian movements in America and ...

It’s been 10 years since Angela Merkel, as German chancellor, memorably declared “Wir schaffen das” — “We can do this” — in the face of the mass migration crisis sweeping Europe. Last week The Wall ...

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