I have been meaning for a while to write about one of the best books I’ve read this year: Matthew Rose’s A World After Liberalism: Philosophers of the Radical Right. Rose is not on the radical ...

This is what gives liberalism its hidden resilience, its capacity to rebuild after political reversals. If we want to rebuild, we’ll need to recover what the word used to mean. It once was a ...

Liberals and socialists typically see themselves as foes. But truly realizing liberal ideals of freedom and equality means ...

Within my lifetime, this was unthinkable. It is worth pausing to mark little liberal wins, such as the creeping secularisation of the most important country on Earth. Seventy per cent of ...

America is generally understood as a liberal democracy — meaning that elections determine who is in charge but some basic rights such as free speech still can’t be curtailed by the government.