The intertwined relationship between liberalism and socialism offers important lessons for today’s fractious intra-left ...

Twitter is a place for attention-addicted depressives to mine dopamine from pixels. So, it’s never been the happiest app on Earth. But in recent days, as the Delta variant spread through bastions of ...

There was a time when both major political parties had a substantial number of liberals and conservatives. But over the course of the lifetime of everyone reading this column today, liberals have ...

Here’s a really interesting report by the prominent UK political scientist Eric Kauffman, analyzing wokeness and its future prospects. It starts like this: Western societies are in the midst of a ...

Last month, Senator Bernie Sanders defined his vision for democratic socialism in an address at George Washington University. The speech elicited mixed reactions from political reporters and scholars, ...

Bernie Sanders is the most popular politician in the country, and the DSA convention just made national news. But U.S. socialism has to find a viable path to power. In the early 1970s, I was a ...

Histories of the idea of liberalism usually begin in the seventeenth century with the philosopher taken to be its patron saint, John Locke. In the aftermath of the wars of religion, the story goes, ...

Matt McManus has been a unique Left writer for years, prominent for extensive reviews debunking various abjectly wretched conservative philosophical and political arguments. McManus takes reactionary ...

Lesson for you. In 2006 the Democrats took control over both houses of Congress. Until then the economy was doing great. The Democrats had complete control of everything for the first two years of ...

Every day the warnings grow more emphatic: Around the world, liberalism is in retreat. Populism, authoritarianism and nationalism are on the rise, and American hegemony is in decline. At home, too, ...

For years, a rumor has spread that former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, a Republican, said, "If fascism comes to America, ...