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A mericans aren’t used to having to defend democracy. It’s just been a given for so long. After all, it’s the country’s 249th ...
These include the aims of the welfare state, such as “the liberty of being cared for, or that of being educated,” as well as the freedom of groups (such as unions) to organize for their interests ...
Equality before the law is an indispensable pillar of a democracy. It is the concept in which liberty is fundamentally grounded and the basis of our legal and political theory.
Too many see the judiciary as an extension of the liberal establishment, prioritising fashionable causes over the rule of law. When a judge is exposed for having liked pro-Palestinian extremist ...
The divergence of democracy from liberalism has become more obvious of late, and not only in the might-be democracies of the Middle East. In an ever-growing number of established democracies, such ...
The equality of everyone before the law is an ideal that not many societies can live up to, even supposedly democratic ones like that of the US. There is an old Chinese saying: ...
Rather than ending two-tier justice, Labour risks enshrining it in law. Anyone who values equality before the law should be deeply concerned, writes Mark Day.This decision could undermine wider ...
She was not the first woman justice, but she was the first voice for women’s justice. Ruth Bader Ginsburg dedicated her career to gender equality before being appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court ...