David French: 'I Think the Protection of Liberty Is a Common Good'
The Dispatch senior editor on the value of liberalism and the problems with the new nationalist right
The Dispatch senior editor on the value of liberalism and the problems with the new nationalist right
Hungary's Viktor Orbán consolidates power, Harvard's Adrian Vermeule fantasizes about wielding it, and many of those who oppose authoritarian conservativism beg Donald Trump to close the country down.
It will empower the state and will divide rather than unite Americans.
Individual autonomy is not the cause of our problems and state autonomy is not the solution
The PRC committed the biggest mass murder in the history of the world, and numerous other atrocities and human rights violations, some of which go on at this very moment.
The El Paso shooter's combination of anti-capitalism, bigotry, and xenophobic nationalism highlights the dangers of zero-sum thinking on left and right. His worldview resembles that of the perpetrator of a similar attack in New Zealand earlier this year. Sadly, these ideas are not confined to a few extremists.
The professor's immigration views are wrong, but removing her would compromise academic freedom.
The debate over Donald Trump's "go back" tweets regarding four minority Democratic members of Congress has centered on the unmistakably bigoted words that he wrote, but has missed the deeper point.
What does it mean to be an American, and what do individuals owe to the country in which they live?
His case reminds us that the misuse of government power is still the biggest threat to liberty.
If big government is the price of "good outcomes," the American right is increasingly willing to pay it.
The Declaration of Independence advocates a polity based on universal principles of liberty and equality, not ethnic nationalism. We would do well to remember those principles today.
We're getting a military parade because Donald Trump wants one. The arguments for leaving our tanks at their bases are far more numerous, significant, and powerful.
From socialism to nationalism, debunked ideologies are making a return.
Nationalists are using food safety arguments to attack ethnic diversity
Republicans, who have gleefully warned the public about Democratic flirtations with socialism, shouldn't be quick to gloat given the emergence of an anti-freedom movement on the Right.
Us vs. Them author Ian Bremmer says that worldwide populism is a response from people who are being left behind economically.
Free market reformers and authoritarian nationalists battle it out to reshape Brazil.
He's promising voters protection from made-up threats instead of prosperity.
Legal scholar John McGinnis argues the answer is "yes." But the issue is a far closer one than he suggests.
Stanford's Francis Fukuyama on the rise of populism in the West and how identity politics thwarted the end of history.
A conservative re-evaluation of President Andrew Jackson
India is known as the land of contradictions, and recent events do little to undermine that reputation.
With toxic nationalism making a comeback, Germany was supposed to be the one keeping things together.
Meanwhile, Alex Jones yells at horseshit.
Under Chinese law, disrespecting the national anthem is punishable by up to 15 days in jail.
Don't mistake this election for a Trump-inspired victory - Quebec's toxic anti-immigration politics are home grown.
But many of the Alternative for Deutschland's leaders have questionable track records when it comes to anti-Semitism.
The Declaration of Independence makes the case for a political system based on universal principles of liberty and equality, not ethnic nationalism. Those principles are as relevant as ever in our troubled times.
Emmanuel Macron wants teens to "value" their citizenship. Milton Friedman would be appalled.
The on-again, off-again flirtation between Mother Russia and the deplorables of Europe
The religion this church administers is Americanism, a species of nationalism.
Little Nationalism can be as destructive of human flourishing as Big Nationalism.
Lawsuit claims administrators were "whipped into a frenzy" by media coverage of NFL players' protests.
Antiglobalism and anticosmopolitanism might flow purely from economic ignorance, but it is hard to believe that's all it is for many people.
What does it mean when a president is constantly worried that we 'won't have a country' anymore?
If we Americans value freedom, we will dismiss the social engineers, open the borders, and liberate ourselves.
How flag-waving nationalism provides cover for a destructive economic policy.
Leftists "have infiltrated and corrupted" the L.P., the former Senate primary-election loser charges on his way out the door
How Vladimir Putin's desire for domination and acceptance is scrambling American politics.
A growing economy will undercut the appeal of his ethno-nationalist politics.
Muhammad cartoon publisher Flemming Rose talks about immigration, free speech, and toleration.
The Eurocentric paradox at the heart of American nationalism
It's time we learn that killing and dying for an ideology-even so-called liberal democracy- is as bad as doing so for a religion.