David Fontana is associate professor at George Washington University School of Law. Monday was the last day of this year's Supreme Court term — one widely seen as notable not for what was decided but, ...

The central struggle in the world right now is between liberalism and authoritarianism. It’s between those of us who believe in democratic values and those who don’t — whether they are ...

From the always thoughtful and readable Jonathan Rauch, in Persuasion; some excerpts, though the whole thing is much worth reading: Never in my lifetime have critiques of Locke, Smith, Mill, the ...

WITH HARD-RIGHT populist parties surging in Europe and the Republican Party lurching rightwards in America, liberalism is on the back foot. It may seem an exhausted ideology with little to offer, but ...

In 1978, the Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn gave a commencement address at Harvard, warning us about the loss of American self-confidence and will. “A decline in courage may be the most ...