There is plenty of talk of threats to 'Our Democracy,' but what is really in danger today is the classical liberal tradition ...

Americans aren’t used to having to defend democracy. It’s just been a given for so long. After all, it’s the country’s 249th ...

Annelien de Dijn’s Freedom: An Unruly History (2020) has a similar finding. As democracy broke out across the North Atlantic, the liberal idea of freedom was mobilized to control the unruly ...

The nationalist revolt on the right arose from a loss of faith in the power of conservative liberalism to pull the United States’ democratic culture away from the allure of smothering liberal ...

Furthermore, imposing Western-style liberal democracy on other nations (who were understandably uncertain it was a good idea) — through coercion and bribery and outright force, if necessary ...

Whether liberalism is combined with democracy, monarchy, or another form of government, it adds an element of elevation, since it makes distinctions between acceptable and unacceptable uses of ...

The divergence of democracy from liberalism has become more obvious of late, and not only in the might-be democracies of the Middle East. In an ever-growing number of established democracies, such ...

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 ...

The future of the state of Israel is once again a topic of heated public debate. For good reasons: The possibility of a nuclear threat from a hostile Iran is one; deadlock in the peace process in ...

Liberalism and democracy will go on. Opinion: The post-Cold War era is finished. Liberalism and democracy will go on. (Alain Pilon/The New York Times) ...

America never really was liberal, and that’s not the right fight anyway. The fight now is for democracy.