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’s Last Man: Hayek in the Age of Political Capitalism, by Vikash Yadav (University of Chicago Press, 288 pp., $35) According to one of Italo Calvino’s 14 definitions, “a classic is a book ...

A liberalism that fails to answer the question of meaning opens the door to authoritarian temptation. Liberalism is often hailed as the great success story of modernity. It freed people from feudal ...

The Liberal Democrat History Group’s fringe meeting at conference featured a fascinating discussion of the historical roots and present meaning of Liberalism. You can catch up on the meeting, which ...

“Neoliberalism” has been called a political swear word, and it gets blamed for pretty much every socioeconomic ill we have, from bank failures and income inequality to the gig economy and demagogic ...

Hayek’s correspondent was John Maynard Keynes, on his way to the Bretton Woods conference in New Hampshire, where he would help plan the post-war economic order. The letter’s warmth will surprise ...

Sampling the outpouring of responses to a column by David Brooks about the shortcomings of the liberal approach to the nation’s ills. To the Editor: I read “Despite Everything, I’m Still Not a Liberal ...