Covid-19 and the limits of individual liberty

Massive companies like Amazon, Google, Pfizer, and Uber don’t merely dominate an industry: They dominate our lives.

His new platform aims “to defend free speech and free inquiry against all its enemies.” But is it really just obsessed with cancel culture?

The critics of progressive identity politics have got it all wrong: They’re the illiberal ones.

A threat to the community

The U.S. has to rethink its role in an era of ecological disaster.

The political establishment dismissed him, but his tireless fight for struggling workers has altered the course of American liberalism.

The subtlest way to undermine democracy is to fake it.

Malcolm Harris’s book sketches a radical politics for the generation between Occupy Wall Street and the age of Trump.

One scholar’s quest for a modern equivalent to the General Will

Why Meghan Daum, Bret Easton Ellis, and Wesley Yang reject social justice movements on the left

Rethinking liberal triumphalism—and its limitations

Are his principles for a just society enough today?

Some leftist thinkers are too pessimistic about the fate of liberal values in the age of Trump.

A splintered conservative movement slouches toward authoritarianism, thanks to—of all things—drag queens at the library.

On the growing appeal of socialism in an age of inequality

In his critique of 1960s movements, Glazer was not defending conservatism so much as trying to protect a clearer path to liberalism.

His new book lacks a fundamental understanding of political-economic power.

Unearthing The New Republic's intellectual roots

Former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, recently hired to manage the beleaguered tech giant's global affairs and communications, digs the liberal-utilitarian theorist.