Twitter is a place for attention-addicted depressives to mine dopamine from pixels. So, it’s never been the happiest app on Earth. But in recent days, as the Delta variant spread through bastions of ...

Here’s a really interesting report by the prominent UK political scientist Eric Kauffman, analyzing wokeness and its future prospects. It starts like this: Western societies are in the midst of a ...

Last month, Senator Bernie Sanders defined his vision for democratic socialism in an address at George Washington University. The speech elicited mixed reactions from political reporters and scholars, ...

The overselling of the benefits of the earliest personal computers brought a new version of an old joke: What’s the difference between a computer salesman and some guy selling snake oil health tonics ...

Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought by Bruno Leipold Princeton University Press, 2024, 440 pp. The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism by ...

There was a time when both major political parties had a substantial number of liberals and conservatives. But over the course of the lifetime of everyone reading this column today, liberals have ...

Bernie Sanders is the most popular politician in the country, and the DSA convention just made national news. But U.S. socialism has to find a viable path to power. In the early 1970s, I was a ...

Very often bad and failed ideas do not die, they simply reappear during periods of supposed social and political crisis in slightly different intellectual garb, and offer “solutions” that would merely ...

Between the Great Lisbon Earthquake and the revolutionary year of 1848 the European chattering classes had three big ideas. One was very, very good. The other two were very, very bad. We're still ...

Histories of the idea of liberalism usually begin in the seventeenth century with the philosopher taken to be its patron saint, John Locke. In the aftermath of the wars of religion, the story goes, ...