Francis Fukuyama argues that liberal democracies are healthiest when they foster inclusive national communities, rather than narrow identities among the aggrieved. But is an inclusive national identity possible?
The culture of America is fragmenting, and social pathologies multiply. Is a pluralism that features cohesive local communities a way forward?
So what did Samuel Johnson, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Edward Gibbon talk about when they met at their Club? A new book eavesdrops.
Will the case for a sober U.S. foreign policy win over the nation builders?
Former neocon Max Boot is burning down the house he once lived in. Will his new liberal friends make room for him in theirs?
As Daniel J. Mahoney demonstrates, the “religion of humanity” has had many inhumane consequences.
That Stalin was evil there is no doubt. How he came to become the personification of cruelty is a matter scholars still debate.
A new book draws parallels between people liberated from communism and pampered bears in their new welfare states.
Why did so many of the best and the brightest embrace the most horrific dictators of the 20th century?
Auden, Eliot, Lewis, Maritain, Weil: WWII raised for each of these thinkers a set of concerns about the relationship between Christianity and the Western democratic social order.
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