There are words we know, and there are words we argue about, working our way to a shared meaning. And then there is that unique category of terms that, once they appear, stubbornly refuse to succumb ...

Earlier this week, I did a talk at Unitelma Sapienza University in Rome on "Threats to Liberal Democracy in the United States - And How to Counter Them." The talk was followed by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, a little-known Sovietologist and deputy director of the State Department’s Office of Policy Planning, ...

Gianna Englert, an associate professor of humanities at the University of Florida, visited Brown on Thursday to discuss her book investigating the tensions between liberal and democratic ideologies in ...

Most Americans say democracy in the United States used to be a good example for other countries to follow but has not been in recent years.

Francis Fukuyama wrote The End of History more than 30 years ago, believing that the fall of the communist bloc would lead to ...

“Don’t mention the word ‘liberalism,’ ” the talk-show host says to the guy who’s written a book on it. “Liberalism,” he explains, might mean Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to his suspicious audience ...

In 2017, Samuel Moyn, a left-wing Yale professor of law and history, co-wrote a New York Times op-ed headlined, “Trump Isn’t a Threat to Our Democracy. Hysteria Is.” In the essay, Moyn diagnosed ...

Liberality was talked about everywhere. You can read about it in Cicero, in John Locke, in the letters of George Washington.

Ben Ansell is a professor of comparative democratic institutions at the University of Oxford's Nuffield College. He is a fellow of the British Academy and the host of the What's Wrong with Democracy?

Robert Kagan believes Americans have long indulged in a “pleasing myth”: that all their countrymen “share a commitment to the nation’s founding principles.” But the uncomfortable truth, he argues in ...