Liberalism and conservatism have conditioned each other throughout their collisions over the course of American history, the ever-evolving yin and yang of our collective political consciousness.

Liberalism is rooted in this notion of the Enlightenment, the idea that we can use our reason, and we can use empiricism, and we can sort out facts, and using something like the scientific ...

Adolf Hitler, surrounded by his bodyguards, arrives at Saarbrucken on May 3, 1932. On the right in the foreground is Heinrich Himmler, Reich leader of the Black Guards. (AP) Perspective by John ...

In this masterful and beautifully written history of liberalism’s long intellectual journey, Kahan argues that what unifies liberals across the eras are their efforts to build societies free from the ...

However, denialism about the basic facts of his history does not just come from Afrikaner circles. There is now also a liberal and often English-speaking version of white denialism that is ...

H elena Rosenblatt’s The Lost History of Liberalism is an important work of scholarship, a survey of the varieties of “liberalism” in the past two centuries. At a time when defenders of ...

Siedentop dallies in the Middle Ages in implausible reaction to anxiety and worry, distorting the history of liberalism and omitting how much further it had to go—still has to go—to take individual ...

A History of Liberal White Racism, Cont. It's not that northern liberals cut a deal with southern racists -- the southerners were very much married to to the prospect of progressive reform.

History isn't over, and neither liberalism nor democracy is ascendant. Today, it’s hard to imagine Fukuyama being more wrong. History isn’t over and neither liberalism nor democracy is ascendant.

Oxford professor Ben Ansell says we are witnessing a battle between nationalism and liberalism that will write our own time indelibly into the history books of tomorrow.