The academic-turned-polemicist believes liberalism has lost its way but detractors accuse him of ‘trolling disguised as erudition’. Here he answers back Mark Lilla has spent much of his almost ...

For a long time, a faction of U.S. liberals shouldered the burdens of a fully inclusive social compact. They rightly indicted welfare-state compromises that served some and not others, and that served ...

The Trump campaign and Presidency have sparked not only an ever-expanding literature of biography, investigation, and pre-history but also a variety of polemics and essays—pointed attacks on the ...

A controversial thinker targets the nostalgia behind our political moment – from Trump to Brexit, Putin to militant Islam In The Reckless Mind (2001), his previous study of the role of the ...