Socialism is the opiate of today's masses, and plutocrats preserve their own position by pretending to embrace it.

Liberal bromides do not offer a solution to our creeping tyranny, but liberal norms and values do help check it.

Aaron Sachs skillfully weaves the stories of Herman Melville and his biographer, Lewis Mumford, into a poignant lesson about history's uncanny echoes.

The British musical group saw the divine comedy of modern life.

Whether we study our own times or the human condition more broadly, we quickly discover the need for serious philosophic reflection on human limits.

Freedom cannot long survive perpetual, chronic, and largely bogus outrage.

Hume was a quintessential eighteenth-century man of letters, as evidenced by his Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary.

Ranked choice voting can promote civility and give third parties a fighting chance.

American civil religion won't be revived unless American churches are revived.

Gary Gerstle's attack on the "neoliberal order" is a way of expressing admiration for the New Deal order and the vast administrative state it produced.