Liberalism Doesn’t Start With Liberty Liberalism Doesn’t Start With Liberty
In Edmund Fawcett’s new history, liberalism begins with capitalism and revolution.
Dec 23, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Katrina Forrester
Science as Salvation? Science as Salvation?
Marcelo Gleiser wants to heal the rift between humanists and scientists by deflating scientific dreams of establishing final truths.
Aug 27, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Michael Saler
The Burkean Regicide The Burkean Regicide
Does David Bromwich’s idea of a Burkean left amount to anything more than contempt for Obama?
Aug 12, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn
What Was Democracy? What Was Democracy?
Democracy was once a comforting fiction. Has it become an uninhabitable one?
May 13, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Thomas Meaney and Yascha Mounk
How Tolerant Should We Be of Intolerance? How Tolerant Should We Be of Intolerance?
It’s one of the most ticklish questions of liberal philosophy.
May 13, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Cathy Gere
Thomas Piketty and Millennial Marxists on the Scourge of Inequality Thomas Piketty and Millennial Marxists on the Scourge of Inequality
Capitalism’s new critics take on an economics run amok.
Apr 14, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Timothy Shenk
Beyond Naturalism: On Ronald Dworkin Beyond Naturalism: On Ronald Dworkin
How did an essential figure in the modern revival of liberal political philosophy end up pondering issues of theology?
Feb 11, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Michael Rosen
The Gray Zone The Gray Zone
Does John Gray counsel anything more than avoidance of the ideological excesses he scorns?
Dec 4, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Isaac Chotiner
Without Respite Without Respite
Seeing not a person but a thing was the crime of crimes for Primo Levi.
Nov 25, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
Hannah and Her Admirers Hannah and Her Admirers
Margarethe von Trotta’s biopic of Hannah Arendt is a film about ideas that remains intellectually detached from them.
Nov 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / David Rieff