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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 ...

Arguably no contemporary scholar has thought more deeply about how liberalism as a political tradition and philosophy has been historically and structurally biased towards the socioeconomic interests ...

Liberalism is in crisis. Its defenders, who see liberalism as a bulwark against tyranny, fear that illiberalism now threatens to overwhelm liberal democracy. Its critics, who say liberalism is a ...

Since the upheavals of the financial crisis of 2008 and the political turbulence of 2016, it has become clear to many that liberalism is, in some sense, failing. The turmoil has given pause to ...

Rights-oriented liberal theory faces a dilemma. In a well-ordered society, citizens must share virtues that are generated in nonpolitical groups, but the liberal state cannot prescribe a way of life ...

These are difficult times for liberal theorists. Fewer than thirty years after the end of the Cold War ushered in a period of unprecedented liberal ascendancy, liberalism today is in retreat—or at ...

Abigail Spanberger Thinks Virginia Parents Are ‘Confused’ About the Trans Issue They May Just Be Crazy Enough to Nominate Graham Platner No One Is Tearing Down the Trump Ballroom Jay Jones Sags Behind ...

LIBERALISM—the Enlightenment philosophy, not the American left—starts with the assertion that all human beings have equal moral worth. From that stem equal rights for all. Libertarians see those ...

The Republican National Convention went off with little controversy, so naturally liberal media and the Democratic Party have rushed to embrace every ridiculous conspiracy theory that floats by on ...