Judith N. Shklar

Judith Shklar fled Nazis and Stalinism before discovering in African-American history the dilemma of modern liberalism.

The risks of calling on politicians to push back against the court must be weighed against the present reality of a malign judicial dictatorship.

What explains the traditionalist Catholic infatuation with ‘The Exorcist’?

There are certainly good grounds to criticize Cold War liberalism. But Samuel Moyn's new book, like similar critiques, has a classic baby-bathwater problem.

How Cold War liberalism abandoned the vocabulary of hope—and how we still live with the consequences.

A conversation about the Cold War’s profound and negative influence on the liberal worldview.

A left that is ambivalent about liberalism can still seek to engage it.

Lionel Trilling crystallizes the cynical Cold War liberalism that sacrificed idealism for self-restraint.

In “Liberalism Against Itself,” Samuel Moyn stresses the need to resuscitate an earlier and more rousing wave of thinkers.

Amidst growing suspicion that equality talk is cheap, a new book explains where egalitarianism went wrong—and what it still has to offer.