A Journal of Ideas

Liberalism

The Reactionary Bind

In assessing the rise of the global anti-democracy movement, the United States must look inward as well as outward.

By Kim Phillips-Fein

Dangers and Enemies Everywhere

How Cold War liberalism abandoned the vocabulary of hope—and how we still live with the consequences.

By George Scialabba

And Democracy for All

Danielle Allen offers a glimpse of the pathway from polarizing identity to a connected and inclusive society.

By Margaret Levi

Saving Democracy

How to address the “great misalignment” between self-government and human frailty.

By Isabel Sawhill

Beyond Compromise

By Jack Meserve