Sarah Thomas reviews Norberto Bobbio’s Liberalism and Democracy, appreciating its comprehensive intellectual history while ...

How two competing definitions of "freedom" evolved over the last 250 years—and why they remain largely unreconcilable ...

A new exhibit at the Suffolk County Historical Society Museum in Riverhead features women artists reflecting on freedom, democracy and empowerment.

Two closely related words that animated the call for independence from Great Britian were liberty and freedom. Those two words called not only for independence from the then-governing power but also ...

Few ideas have shaped the world more profoundly than democracy. It is a concept born in the dust of ancient city-states, ...

The keynote address from the "Gitlow v. New York at 100" symposium, held this year at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law; other papers from that symposium will be ...

On a special episode (first released on May 7, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: As a bulwark against the flood of propaganda and misinformation coming from China and Russia, the United States Agency for ...

An Atlanta attorney writes that "the bulwark against a pernicious drift into epistemological nihilism and anti-democratic anti-nomianism is a robust, free press. The framers of the Constitution wisely ...

The more time I spend in and around Washington, D.C., the more I see and hear the same words over and over again: democracy, freedom, liberty. They hang from banners, echo through conference halls and ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. America’s founding promise of democracy, liberty, and freedom has inspired generations both in ...

For Madison, religious freedom was not a tool for political domination. Rather, he saw it as a constitutional safeguard for ...

The early correspondence of James Madison – who went on to become the fourth U.S president and played a key role in the drafting of the Constitution and Bill of Rights – wrestles with the tensions of ...