From Locke and the “social contract” to Rawls and the “veil of ignorance”, here are the people, ideas and world-shaking events that made liberalism what it is, and isn't, today https://t.co/P0TfxThzya ...

Liberalism may seem an exhausted ideology with little to offer, but in fact it is most essential when grappling with authoritarian impulses. These books help to explain why https://t.co/6dn7BjRsXr ...

Liberalism is on the back foot in Europe and America. But it is one of humanity’s most successful ideas, as these five books show https://t.co/9LukGnHDpe ...

These five books offer helpful reminders both of the challenges that liberalism faces, and of the promise it still holds https://t.co/8NQQWwgSlZ ...

The ink is barely dry on the retirement announcement from longtime Congressman Jerry Nadler, and a wild scramble is already underway to potentially replace him. First, let's talk about the location because it's political catnip. As the New York Times describes it, a coveted Democratic district that is home to billionaires, chief executives, artists, and political dynasties.One member of the Democrat's most vaunted dynasty, Jack Schlober, may be the buzziest possible contender. grandson of JFK and Jackie, Ha ...

Uruguay’s support for assisted dying is built on a strikingly secular and liberal tradition. Could its approach spread across Latin America? https://t.co/1yChiAaIK7Illustration: Xiao Hua Yang https://t.co/g3je5UCz93 ...

I have good news.Yes, the land is moving in an illiberal direction. It’s disorderly anarcho-nationalism and anarcho-communism in America. And disturbingly ordered nationalist communism in China.Businessmen are now randomly murdered in the USA and randomly expropriated in the PRC. All manner of hatred bursts forth every day on social media — against whites, nonwhites, men, women, the young, the old, and everyone in between. And the values of peace, trade, and win/win cooperation that built the modern world s ...

As things stand, the Thai army will probably have to choose between patching things up with the populists or trying to work with the liberals. It is reluctant to do either https://t.co/bFoADQ2qpp ...