In the wake of soft despotism, Tocqueville warned of even more malevolent possibilities.

Data shows that a bevy of Scottish thinkers were the first to bestow a political meaning to the word “liberal.”

The Electoral College hinders a strategy of clientelism and dependency.

“On the Balance of Power” recognizes that just causes are often pushed too far.

Liberal bromides do not offer a solution to our creeping tyranny, but liberal norms and values do help check it.

It is tempting to think “it can’t happen here.” But Americans are more concerned about tyranny than they have been in many years.

Neither religious conservatism nor liberalism should be discarded.

According to Oren Cass, Adam Smith applied his principles of free trade only to domestic investment. This is balderdash.

Hugo Grotius addressed the morality of enforcing bad laws.