There are words we know, and there are words we argue about, working our way to a shared meaning. And then there is that unique category of terms that, once they appear, stubbornly refuse to succumb ...

Liberality was talked about everywhere. You can read about it in Cicero, in John Locke, in the letters of George Washington.

A liberalism that fails to answer the question of meaning opens the door to authoritarian temptation. Liberalism is often hailed as the great success story of modernity. It freed people from feudal ...

It hit me in a flash last week as I listened to a professor explain why arguments that sound plausible can turn out to be false. The postliberals, the NatCons, the alt-rightists, the integralists, the ...

In today's post, I will present a general theory of liberalism and conservatism that incorporates modern social science research. I will begin with examples of liberal and conservative attitudes in ...

Meditating on the first and most simple operations of the human soul, I believe that I perceive in it two principles that are prior to reason, of which one makes us ardently interested in our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seventeenth century philosopher of liberalism, John Locke. Liberal democracy is in danger. The assertion is often repeated, but ...