Liberalism

What We’ve Been Reading—September 2021

Our editors reflect on the future of American foreign policy, the Counter-Reformation, Frank Herbert’s Dune, and the work of Sergij Bulgakov. Continue Reading »

23 Sep 2021

Arguments, Not Sound Bites

by Carl R. Trueman

There is too little constructive argument and too much carefully-policed rhetoric in Christian circles. Continue Reading »

22 Jun 2021

The Myth of the Value-Neutral Market

by Mark Movsesian

Until America reaches a new social equilibrium, our market is likely to be as contentious as everything else. Continue Reading »

25 May 2021

Leavening Liberalism

by R. R. Reno

We need a society that is at least liberal, but not merely liberal. Continue Reading »

13 May 2021

The Ecclesiology of Liberalism

by Peter J. Leithart

Liberalism isn’t just a political system that prioritizes individual freedom and social equality; liberalism is centrally an anti-catholic ecclesiology. Continue Reading »

11 May 2021

Pixelated Souls

by Jenna Silber Storey and Benjamin Storey

The great liberal thinkers who devised our constitutional order were responding to a seventeenth-century problem, most sharply diagnosed by Thomas Hobbes. The English, Hobbes said, were “seeing double”—divided, both personally and politically, by conflicting allegiances to Christ and King. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2021

Illiberal Protestants

by Ramona Tausz

Today, conservative critics of liberalism tend to be Catholic. Pundits warn of “‘post-liberal’ ferment among a coterie of mostly Catholic writers,” or report on the “network of Catholic intellectuals” making “the case against liberalism.” “Mostly these new traditionalists are . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2020

Suicide of the Liberals

by Gary Saul Morson

Between 1900 and 1917, waves of unprecedented terror struck Russia. Several parties professing incompatible ideologies competed (and cooperated) in causing havoc. Between 1905 and 1907, nearly 4,500 government officials and about as many private individuals were killed or injured. Between 1908 and . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Oct 2020