Prior to Kanye West, Lawrence Dennis was America’s most famous Black fascist. Born in 1893, Dennis had European features and light skin that allowed him to pass for white, which he did for nearly his ...

Using panel data from the World Values Surveys, this article develops an index of social liberalism to see whether Canada and the United States have been moving on parallel tracks in their values or ...

What is post-liberalism? That is no simple question, though the simplest responses are given by those who identify with it as a movement. Adrian Pabst, author of the most influential book on the ...

The death of Hugh Hefner and the dawn of the #MeToo era, coinciding in the autumn of 2017, seemed to mark a turning point in the history of social liberalism in America. Out, at last, went Hefner’s ...

American politics is in flux. Apart from deep-blue enclaves, once-dominant progressivism is on the ropes. Globalization-friendly elitist conservatism has also lost influence, including among ...

Last week I stumbled across a fascinating book called Freedom Rising, written in 2013 by the German political psychologist Christian Welzel. Welzel’s book didn’t receive much attention outside of ...

Hubert H. Humphrey has lessors for our times. Here, the U.S. Senator tells the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 29,1968 in Chicago that he accepts the party's nomination as its candidate for ...

It has become trite to say that liberalism is in crisis. As long ago as 1997, in an article in these pages, Fareed Zakaria warned of the rising threat of “illiberal democracy” around the world. Since ...