Liberalism in the philosophical sense is the broad family of political doctrines that center on equality and freedom: holding ...

Social liberalism — better understood as progressivism — is a worldview that seeks to use the state to support its preferred values and culture. That isn’t libertarianism.

(Best of the tube this weekend: Catch us on Fox News Channel’s “The Journal Editorial Report” discussing “social liberalism.” Note new time: Saturday at 3 p.m. ET, with a repeat showing ...

April has not been kind to those who subscribe to the tenets of cultural and social liberalism. The advocates of progressivism in American life have suffered two defeats in recent weeks – one ...

I think it’s safe to say that Freddie deBoer is considerably to my left. But even he finds much of contemporary social liberalism dispiriting and self-righteous: It seems to me now that the ...

By “social liberalism” I don’t mean the progressivism that took off in the Trump era — antiracism and diversity-equity-inclusion and #MeToo.

And whereas classical liberals and neoliberals from Adam Smith to Friedrich Hayek have defended laissez-faire capitalism, Rawls stands in a long tradition of “social liberal” thinkers like ...

Classical liberalism is built on ideas that had already arisen by the end of the 18th century, such as selected ideas of Adam Smith, John Locke, Jean-Baptiste Say, Thomas Malthus, and David Ricardo.

Its one common assumption is that traditional liberalism – in its economic and social versions – is in trouble. Russell Blackford’s How We Became Post-Liberal purports to offer a detached, ...

The death of Hugh Hefner and the dawn of the #MeToo era, coinciding in the autumn of 2017, seemed to mark a turning point in the history of social liberalism in America. Out, at last, went Hefner ...