Liberalism is at a turning point. The rise of the far right in Western democracies has challenged liberal values and institutions and, as the UK riots in August exemplified, fuelled violent extremism ...

Mr. Edsall contributes weekly essays from Washington on politics and demographics. Is liberalism an endangered species? By liberalism I mean the combination of carefully regulated free markets with ...

Seven months into the second Trump administration, the future of American liberalism is still opaque. I can identify movements contending for influence — the Trump-focused neo-resistance politics of ...

Once a fighting creed, the liberal spirit in America now fights for its life while drawing heavy fire from both sides. Leading intellectuals on the left attack the liberal spirit for conspiring with ...

Boston Review recently hosted a virtual roundtable featuring contributors to a new collection of essays, Mastery and Drift: Professional-Class Liberals since the 1960s, published by University of ...

Across academia, government, and Silicon Valley, on social media, and in leading journals, intellectuals and political leaders are openly debating what comes after liberalism. Yet inside the military ...

“LIBERAL” HAS become an epithet in American politics. The left wing of the Democratic Party now prefers “progressive”. But author and columnist Adrian Wooldridge argues that classical ...

Former Canadian politician Michael Ignatieff wrote a blistering autopsy of where the so-called "adults in the room" leading liberalism went disastrously wrong. As left-wing politics face a string of ...