Last week, I wrote a cover story in The New Republic arguing that the struggle against Islamist totalitarianism should define contemporary liberalism, as the struggle against Soviet totalitarianism ...

Reading of the president-elect’s cabinet nominees brings to mind words by Hannah Arendt: "Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sym-pathies, with ...

Last Thursday Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman issued a warning in the New York Times. “The pandemic will eventually end,” he wrote, “but democracy, once lost, may never come back. And we’re much ...