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Is Liberalism Worth Saving?

by Patrick J. Deneen, Francis Fukuyama, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Cornel West,

The future of an ideal

One Manner of Law

by Marilynne Robinson,

The religious origins of American liberalism

Mistaking Identity

by Francis Fukuyama,

From Liberalism and Its Discontents, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Modern democracies are facing a deep cognitive crisis. For many years now, societies have…

Radical Nostalgia

by Christopher Lasch,

The notion of the “nostalgic American” served liberals as an ideal whipping boy at a time when the intellectual foundations of liberalism were beginning to erode. As the dogma of…

History As End

by Matthew Karp,

1619, 1776, and the politics of the past

An Incoherent Truth

by Thomas Chatterton Williams,

Last fall, Tobi Haslett, a young writer and critic with Marxist leanings, noticed a shift in the contours of popular intellectual debate. “Something is happening out there in the dark…

Illiberal Values

by Walter Kirn,

Coming of age in the Seventies as a Midwesterner, a Mormon, and a resident of a town of about five hundred people, I didn’t get to meet a lot of…

Unmusical Chairs

by Rebecca Solnit,

It’s often forgotten that the idea of the political spectrum—of politics having a left and right—has a physical origin. It comes from the seating arrangements at the National Assembly of…

Nor a Lender Be

by Thomas Frank,

Hillary Clinton, liberal virtue, and the cult of the microloan

Under Western Eyes

by John Gray,

By John Gray, adapted from an article in the October 2014 issue of Prospect. Gray is the author of many books, including False Dawn, Straw Dogs, and The Silence of…

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by Tim Bower,