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Where Have All the Classical Liberals Gone?

The Economist Who Forgot Economics

Daron Acemoglu won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2024 and is the third most cited economist of all time. Thus, the paradox of his new book, What Happened to Liberal Democracy?, i...

The Economist Who Forgot Economics

Daron Acemoglu won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2024 and is the third most cited economist of all time. Thus, the paradox of his new book, What Happened to Liberal Democracy?, i...

Why Postliberalism Failed--And Is Likely to Fail Again

Contemporary postliberalism may be a fitting ideology for the age—but that hardly makes its agenda a good one, let alone an American one.  

The Twilight of the Francis Fukuyama Era

The famous thinker’s new memoir reveals a fateful political and intellectual blind spot.

After the International 'Liberal Order'

A new book imagines a new global system. How plausible are its ideas?

THE COUNTERREVOLUTION

“Whatever the final assessment of Trump’s second term, his achievement in recovering from ignominy and surviving the efforts of an entrenched establishment to destroy him will stan...

CALL IT EVIL

Neiman, the director of an international public think tank called the Einstein Forum, continues the probing cultural critique begun in her Learning From the Germans (2019) and Left...

Book Review: Revolution

Eric Metaxas, Revolution: the Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World. Odysseus Books, 2006. 640 pp. Few contemporary Christian writers have had careers as varied...

The Eclectic Genius of Willmoore Kendall

This is the fourth and final essay in a symposium that reconsiders neglected conservative thinkers. The essays were originally presented at the 2026 meeting of the Academy of Philo...

The Radical Ideas of Plato’s Republic: An In-Depth Introduction

We no longer live in a time when college freshmen get shocked by much of the reading material assigned to them. Counterintuitively, the texts that do retain their power to disturb...

Civic Education and Classical Liberalism

Civics centers, teaching civic and classical education through “Western civ” and great books, are often described as conservative enterprises. In a strong sense, this is manifestly...

Review: The Women Behind the American Revolution

Obstinate Daughters leaves readers wanting more about the women it chronicles.

A Democrat Operative Explains The Rise Of The Radical DSA Left

Evan Barker's memoir, Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative, exposes the dark side of leftist politics.

Fusionism in the Twenty-First Century

A Civitas Symposium on Stephanie Slade's new book.

On Dogmas, Heterodoxy and Supermajorities

A review of Supermajority: How Democrats Can Build Lasting Power

THE INHERITANCE

If you want to radicalize someone, send them off to an ill-defined, poorly managed war. Timothy McVeigh, one of Reitman’s subjects, is a case in point: “[T]he reality of combat…fuc...

Scholia for a Free Society

The dialectical battle between traditionalists and lovers of liberty has given us brilliant debates over the past few centuries, but also countless missed opportunities. The battle...

Review by John A Arkansawyer: The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, by Jill Lepore, W. W. Norton, 2026 “I still don’t understand what happened,” he says after a moment. “Maybe that’s because it’s still hap...

Review: An Idealistic Young Attorney in Stalin's Soviet Union

In Sergei Loznitsa's film Two Prosecutors, even a Bolshevik can believe a version of "Good czar, bad boyars."

Both Brilliant and Blind

Introduction: I first read Eric Hoffer’s book The True Believer in 1984, over forty years ago now. I had also read Orwell’s 1984 in that same year because I thought it was an appro...

A Science Fiction Novel That Stress-Tests Our Political Future

Theodore Judson has written, 'The Timerman,' a sequel to his much beloved novel 'Fitzpatrick's War' about the political and technological struggles after the fall of America.

Making Economics Humane Again

The American vice-president, among others, is no great fan of global trade. He has criticized Margaret Thatcher, Milton Friedman, and the Wall Street Journal editorial board, sugge...

The Once and Future Fusion

In the late twentieth century, social conservatives and classical liberals came together under the leadership of Ronald Reagan, building a successful platform for the Republican Pa...