A liberalism that fails to answer the question of meaning opens the door to authoritarian temptation. Liberalism is often hailed as the great success story of modernity. It freed people from feudal ...

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 ...

It was 1935, and Lawrence Dennis was sure that fascism was coming to America. He couldn’t wait. Dennis, a diplomat turned public intellectual, had just published an article in a leading political ...

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 ...

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 ...

WITH HARD-RIGHT populist parties surging in Europe and the Republican Party lurching rightwards in America, liberalism is on the back foot. It may seem an exhausted ideology with little to offer, but ...

For several decades, Cass Sunstein has been one of the most prominent and prolific legal scholars in the United States. A onetime faculty member at the University of Chicago Law School, Sunstein ...

On July 4, 1776, the United States was born not just as a nation, but as an idea. It was the first country truly born of liberalism: a political philosophy rooted in individual rights, limited ...

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 ...

Meditating on the first and most simple operations of the human soul, I believe that I perceive in it two principles that are prior to reason, of which one makes us ardently interested in our ...

Over Thanksgiving week the talk of the economically focused internet was a viral essay claiming, absurdly, that the real poverty line in America for a family of four is $140,000 a year.

My first reaction on reading Marianne Garneau’s essay ‘Antifa is liberalism’ (Ritual, April 11, 2018) was: lolwut. The second was to be reminded of Ward Churchill’s essay ‘Pacifism As Pathology’: in ...