“LIBERAL” HAS become an epithet in American politics. The left wing of the Democratic Party now prefers “progressive”. But author and columnist Adrian Wooldridge argues that classical ...

new video loaded: What Is Liberal in the Liberal Arts? transcript What was a liberal arts education designed to offer? More than recent discourse might lead you to believe. On “The Ezra Klein Show,” ...

This is an edited transcript of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the episode wherever you get your podcasts. We live in this moment when illiberalism is winning, when illiberalism is in power.

Liberalism is at a turning point. The rise of the far right in Western democracies has challenged liberal values and institutions and, as the UK riots in August exemplified, fuelled violent extremism ...

The U.S. has rarely seemed as divided by politics. The parties’ leaders and most energetic supporters see their opponents as enemies more than fellow citizens, and as a mortal threat to their hopes ...

Meditating on the first and most simple operations of the human soul, I believe that I perceive in it two principles that are prior to reason, of which one makes us ardently interested in our ...