For all its troubles, no system better protects free markets, freedom of thought and a social order.

Australia is one of the world’s leading democracies, but we’re not immune from the pressures causing backsliding overseas.

It’s America’s 250th birthday; a time to celebrate and take stock. We can celebrate everything that the founding principles ...

University of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer, in an interview Friday with Charlie Rose, discussed why military force can ...

Gianna Englert, an associate professor of humanities at the University of Florida, visited Brown on Thursday to discuss her book investigating the tensions between liberal and democratic ideologies in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, a little-known Sovietologist and deputy director of the State Department’s Office of Policy Planning, ...

Just as liberals in the last twenty years have conflated the terms "equality" and "equity", they are confused about the meaning of "democracy". Conservatives understand that America is founded on a ...

The first two months of the new year have shaken American political and civic life. The immigration crackdown in Minneapolis that led to two deaths and thousands of arrests sparked widespread public ...

It’s been 10 years since Angela Merkel, as German chancellor, memorably declared “Wir schaffen das” — “We can do this” — in the face of the mass migration crisis sweeping Europe. Last week The Wall ...

Ben Ansell is a professor of comparative democratic institutions at the University of Oxford's Nuffield College. He is a fellow of the British Academy and the host of the What's Wrong with Democracy?

The global chorus of Western democracy promoters assumes that liberal democracy is the universal standard for freedom and progress. But can liberal democracy truly withstand the challenge posed by ...

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 ...