The Free World: Art And Thought In The Cold War By Louis Menand • Farrar, Straus & Giroux • 2021 • 857 pages • $35 During George W. Bush’s presidency, the linguist George Lakoff identified freedom as ...

Every society must choose which goods and services—from education to roads to health care—to provide publicly and which to relegate to the realm of individual responsibility. Over the past five ...

The smartest tax doesn’t have to raise a lot of revenue to do social good. The point of a carbon tax, for example, is to ...

With the end of the Cold War, a wave of optimism emerged that authoritarian and totalitarian regimes would soon give way to democratic ones. United States foreign policy sought to encourage that trend ...

A s readers of this journal know so well, few eras have been as pivotal for American democracy as the present. After years of petty political strafing, partisan gerrymandering, the bipartisan embrace ...

A year ago at this time we were all flying high, eagerly preparing to meet the challenges of “the middle-out moment.” Then came November’s brutal election. But while our spirits may have crashed, the ...

There’s always a telling moment at the Davos World Economic Forum (at least one), but this year’s was a doozy. It involved Michael Dell, the eponymous computer magnate, at a panel discussing how to ...

For as long as the editors of this journal can remember, the broad left has been on the back foot about taxes. Barack Obama in 2012 said that “if you make less than $250,000 a year, like 98 percent of ...

The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics by Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld • Princeton University Press • 2024 • 448 pages • $35 Pity the poor political ...

The Editors of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas are Michael Tomasky (Editor), Jack Meserve (Managing Editor), Delphine d'Amora (Associate Editor), and Claire Schnatterbeck (Assistant Editor).

Capitalism Alone: The Future of the System that Rules the World by Branko Milanovic • Harvard University Press • 2019 • 304 pages • $29.95 In certain quarters of the United States it is taken for ...