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 ...

In 2018, a right-wing assault on liberal politics — political theorist Patrick Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed — became a surprise bestseller.

As such, they’re stories well suited to a liberalism that has lost confidence in the moral arc of history and that has passed ...

Liberalism and conservatism are not limited to politics. These different attitudes represent a fundamental tension in our emotional lives, present in all of us.