Series: Politics and Culture Series

Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Why Liberalism Failed offers cogent insights into the loss of meaning and community that many in the West feel, issues that liberal democracies ignore at their own peril. —President Barack Obama Deneen's book is valuable because it focuses on today's central issue. The important debates now are not about policy. They are about...

How democracies compete with autocracies to bias international order in their favour—and why democracies are losing It is well known, and much discussed, that liberal democracy is in trouble worldwide. Much of this discussion focuses on conditions within individual countries: their inequalities of wealth, political polarisation, media environments, and dominant ideologies. In The Ecology of Nations, John M. Owen IV...

Why the crisis of Christianity has become a crisis for democracy Concise and elegant. . . . Rauch applies careful research and incisive prose to examine, diagnose, and prescribe a cure for the maladies afflicting contemporary religious-political dynamics.—Michael M. Rosen, Commentary What happens to American democracy if Christianity is no longer able, or no longer willing, to perform the functions...

A sweeping account of the rise and evolution of liberal internationalism in the modern era, selected as a Best Book of 2021 by Foreign Affairs. “A thoughtful and profound defence of liberal internationalism—both as a political philosophy and as a guide to future actions.”—Gideon Rachman, Financial Times “The crowning achievement of [Ikenberry’s] decades-long work explaining and defending the liberal international...

From "the nation's leading cultural historian" (David Brooks, New York Times), the long-developing cultural divisions beneath our present political crisis. Liberal democracy in America has always contained contradictions—most notably, a noble but abstract commitment to freedom, justice, and equality that, tragically, has seldom been realised in practice. While these contradictions have caused dissent and even violence, there was always an...