There are words we know, and there are words we argue about, working our way to a shared meaning. And then there is that unique category of terms that, once they appear, stubbornly refuse to succumb ...

Liberalism is in trouble. Its underlying ideas still have some popular resonance, but they attract little support in mainstream politics or public discussion. No major party in the Anglophone liberal ...

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In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, a little-known Sovietologist and deputy director of the State Department’s Office of Policy Planning, published an article in a Washington journal, The National Interest, ...

University of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer, in an interview Friday with Charlie Rose, discussed why military force can not turn foreign countries into liberal democracies. "I believe that if you ...

This transcript was created using speech recognition software, it may contain errors. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript. Peter Thal Larsen Not that long ago, the idea ...