Prior to Kanye West, Lawrence Dennis was America’s most famous Black fascist. Born in 1893, Dennis had European features and light skin that allowed him to pass for white, which he did for nearly his ...

If you’ve ever felt that your everyday life seems to be little more than never-ending chores, a growing to-do list, and endless Zoom meetings, you might be able to relate to the philosopher John Rawls ...

Jeff, if I may provide some context…the Egyptian “liberals” described by the New York Times aren’t the folks we scrap with here at The Spectacle. In this instance, the author is describing a political ...

On this episode of American Prestige, Kevin Schultz on his new book. Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without the boring parts, featuring ...

On July 4, 1776, the United States was born not just as a nation, but as an idea. It was the first country truly born of liberalism: a political philosophy rooted in individual rights, limited ...

Liberalism is the political and social philosophy that promotes democracy, freedom, civil liberties, and limited government intervention. The goal of Christian Nationalism is to restrict freedom and ...

From Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals), which was published last month by the University of Chicago Press. In February 1949, Bill Atwood, a young journalist for the New York ...

What is liberalism? If you’re asking Harvard government professor emeritus Harvey Mansfield, the question doesn’t have just one answer. At a Nov. 3 talk at Dartmouth, Mansfield told students that ...

As fascism has returned to political power, elite liberalism seems to have been caught off guard, left unsure how to respond, how to argue for itself. Why? Pre-Trump liberalism did not cause or ...

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality. Few communities in America prospered as much as Texarkana during President Joe Biden’s four ...