Liberal
-
World
The Authoritarians Have the Momentum
The central struggle in the world right now is between liberalism and authoritarianism. It’s between those of us who believe in democratic values and those who don’t — whether they are pseudo-authoritarian populists like Donald Trump, Viktor Orban ...
-
World
Why Conservative and Liberal Catholics Can’t Escape One Another
Before Pope Francis was elected, conservative Catholics had fallen into a habit of dismissing the more liberal form of Catholicism as an old and faded thing, a vision of the future that belonged to the church’s past, a relic of the 1970s that had ...
-
World
Justin Trudeau Is No Match for a Polarized World
Political careers often end in failure — a cliché that exists because it too often happens to be true. Justin Trudeau, one of the world’s great progressive leaders, may be heading toward that moment. In a recent interview he acknowledged that every ...
-
World
When It Comes to Dating, Ambition Might Matter More Than Politics
I read through all 274 responses to a questionnaire I put out about how politics affects the dating lives of Americans under 30, and I took note of the fact that quite a few respondents used economic terminology when describing their romantic ...
-
World
Harvard Couldn’t Save Both Claudine Gay and Itself
Throughout the weeks that Harvard spent resisting, unsuccessfully, the calls for Claudine Gay’s resignation, a common line of defense of the embattled Ivy League president was that it’s essential not to hand any kind of victory, under any ...
-
World
No Better Time to Be a Catholic
When I began writing a column for this newspaper, I was by no means its first Catholic columnist, but I was probably the first representative of conservative Catholicism, a partisan of both Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, to write regularly ...
-
World
Donald Tusk, a Man of Eclectic Identities, Returns to Power in Poland
The opposition leader was endorsed by Parliament as the country’s next prime minister, unseating the right-wing Law and Justice party that had long denounced him as unfit to rule.
-
World
Why I Am a Liberal
More than at any time since World War II, liberalism is under siege. On the left, some people insist that liberalism is exhausted and dying, and unable to handle the problems posed by entrenched inequalities, corporate power and environmental ...
-
World
Progressives Aren’t Liberal
Remember when “liberal” was a dirty word? In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan, who often prefaced it with a damning “tax and spend,” may have been the most effective of bashers. But the most blatant attack was in the early ’90s, after Newt Gingrich’s ...
-
World
Millennials and Gen Z Are Tilting Left and Staying There
As the saying goes, if you’re not a liberal when you’re young, then you have no heart, and if you’re not a conservative when you’re old, you have no brain. The idea, of course, is that liberalism is a game for the youth and that age brings security ...
- 1
- 2