There are words we know, and there are words we argue about, working our way to a shared meaning. And then there is that unique category of terms that, once they appear, stubbornly refuse to succumb ...

Despite the hurdles, Rosenblatt remains cautiously optimistic that liberals and Democrats can revive their reformist spirit, ...

Kevin M. Schultz is Chair of the Department of History at the University of Illinois Chicago, where he specialises in 20th- and 21st-century American history. In Why Everyone Hates White Liberals ...

"American Dark Age contends that life in early and antebellum America for Black people resembles what Keidrick Roy calls 'racial feudalism,' a race-based system of social stratification in the U.S.

Just as there has been no genuine alternative to the liberal political tradition in America, as Louis Hartz pointed many years ago, so in foreign policy both the higher principles and the baser urges ...

6Can Liberalism Stop Being So Darn ... Liberal? 7Liberalism Has the Ideas–but Does It Have the Will to Impose Them? View All The editors ask if today’s liberalism is equipped to win “this battle,” too ...

“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 ...

Boston Review recently hosted a virtual roundtable featuring contributors to a new collection of essays, Mastery and Drift: Professional-Class Liberals since the 1960s, published by University of ...

Seven months into the second Trump administration, the future of American liberalism is still opaque. I can identify movements contending for influence — the Trump-focused neo-resistance politics of ...

The triumph of vice in American life — the haze of marijuana in our cities, the gambling apps pulsing in so many young male pockets, the success of OnlyFans layered atop the ubiquity of online porn — ...

Re “American Jews in the Age of Palestine,” by Peter Beinart (Opinion guest essay, March 24): There is a fundamental flaw in the article. Zionism does not require backing the Israeli government; it ...