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In April, Jeffrey Goldberg reported on the president's foreign policy. John Bew called the article 'a masterpiece of journalism' in New Statesman, while former U.S. Representative Barney Frank said Goldberg's [...]

In the divisive, partisan political debates in D.C., the term 'grand bargain' refers to a deal in which each side gives up a dearly held position to get what they [...]

SUDDENLY, IT'S IN BOTH PARTIES' INTERESTS TO FIGHT THE BROADER DECLINE OF MARRIAGE. HERE'S THE CASE FOR A 'MARRIAGE OPPORTUNITY' AGENDA. Make marriage achievable for all who seek it. At [...]

The Age of Responsibility: Luck, Choice, and the Welfare State by Yascha Mounk Harvard University Press, 288 pp. Yascha Mounk surged into public view last year with the release of [...]

A decade ago, who would have guessed that controversies about male circumcision would roil a number of European countries and achieve some resonance in the United States? But that is [...]

The article discusses critics charged that national self-interest had prevented democratic governments from cooperating to end the Great Depression. Topics include construction of international institutions and norms-in economics, politics, and human rights-as antidotes to nationalist excesses dominated Western diplomacy; the global struggle between liberal democracy and communism muted the expression of nationalist sentiments on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

Published April 27, 2018 The past few years have witnessed an upsurge of academic interest in antitrust, with research centers and policy-oriented journals releasing a slew of briefings and symposia [...]

Is religious conscience special? And what kinds of claims (if any) does conscience warrant? These are two of the many questions Brian Leiter raises in his provocative book Why Tolerate [...]

In April, the Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty of the US. Conference of Catholic Bishops released a statement, 'Our First, Most Cherished Liberty,' warning against what the bishops consider [...]

Michael Lind writes: In his insightful and important essay 'Taking Liberty' (Washington Monthly, April 2005), William Galston, one of contemporary America's leading social and political thinkers, is right to insist [...]

George W. Bush's second inaugural address, with its sweeping rhetoric about the spread of freedom abroad and at home, sparked strong but varied reactions. Most of the president's conservative supporters [...]

Justice for Hedgehogs Ronald Dworkin Belknap/Harvard University Press, $35, 528 pp. In nearly four decades of reviewing books, Justice for Hedgehogs is arguably my most challenging assignment, in part because [...]

The Political Morality of Liberal Democracy Michael J. Perry Cambridge University Press, $80, 224 pp. Michael J. Perry, a prolific legal theorist who teaches at Emory Law School, is well [...]

The Disappearing Center Engaged Citizens, Polarization, and American Democracy Alan I. Abramowitz Yale University Press, $35, 194 pp. Among elected officials, journalists, and average citizens, intensifying partisan polarization is thought [...]

It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good By Rick Santorum Intercollegiate Studies Institute, $25.00 This is not an easy book for a moderate Democrat to review because its [...]

We often hear it said that the financial crash created populism. It is now a familiar story: that the Lehman Brothers collapse and the Great Recession exposed a shocking and [...]

This article reports the author's opinion on whether the draft should be reintroduced. The author talks about the disconnect in understanding between sending the country to war and whether or not people would actually volunteer to fight in it. The moral consideration of being a citizen as a duty rather than a right is also argued.

The buzz these days is that American politics may be entering a ''postpartisan'' era, as a new generation finds the old ideological quarrels among baby boomers to be increasingly irrelevant. [...]

The Conservative Soul How We Lost It, How to Get It Back By Andrew Sullivan HarperCollins. 304p $25.95 ISBN 0060188774 The Conservative Soul is a dense, passionate argument for a [...]

Active Liberty Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution By Stephen Breyer Alfred A Knopf. 161p $21 ISBN 0307263134 In Active Liberty Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer offers an alternative to Justice Antonin [...]

IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, the Washington Post reporter David Finkel interviewed white evangelical voters in the small town of Sheffield, Ohio. The Leslie family had seen [...]

For Discrimination Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law Randall Kennedy Pantheon, $25.95, 304 pp. For Discrimination offers the bravest and most honest defense of affirmative action in a long time [...]