A Journal of Ideas

Summer 2025, No. 77

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Features

Liberalism Without Illusions

We must free ourselves from the delusion that history is progressive and accept that the dark side of our nature is here to stay.

By William A. Galston

24 MIN READ

Book Reviews

American Hysteria

Red Scare can be read as solid history of the years it depicts—and chilling prophecy of the years to come.

By Maurice Isserman

13 MIN READ

The Real Bill Buckley

Even some liberals toasted William F. Buckley Jr. as a patrician gentleman. A long-awaited new biography corrects that record.

By Nicole Hemmer

13 MIN READ

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