Better than any other liberal, Tocqueville understood the importance of ensuring that the collective business of society is ...

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, a little-known Sovietologist and deputy director of the State Department’s Office of Policy Planning, published an article in a Washington journal, The National Interest, ...

In advance of The Stanfield Conversation, CBC asked current Dalhousie University students to answer questions on the topic: ...

A new study published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences suggests that the threat does not come from a single ...

Liberal democracies rely on truth-seeking institutions insulated from, or capable of rising above, partisan politics: science, universities, and serious journalism. Each were politicized and degraded ...

I think liberals need a reality check. Most of us still believe liberalism and democracy are the same thing. The terms used to be synonymous. From the 1960s to the 2010s, you could use them ...

Mr. Acemoglu, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2024. With President Trump back in the White House, it should be ...

It’s been 10 years since Angela Merkel, as German chancellor, memorably declared “Wir schaffen das” — “We can do this” — in the face of the mass migration crisis sweeping Europe. Last week The Wall ...

The bottom line is that religion is highly important to Ghanaians, but so is liberal democracy. The aim should be to balance the two so that the democratic successes of the Fourth Republic are not ...

"We are undergoing a crisis over the character of the state and democracy. It's unreasonable that precisely the topics related to this would be removed from the civics matriculation." The Education ...