POLITICAL prophets, as Mr. Chesterton once remarked, owe a good deal of their reputation to their habit of predicting as likely to happen in a dozen years or so something that indubitably did happen a ...

The Economist magazine celebrates its 175th anniversary this year. The publication, according to current editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes, was founded to espouse “classical liberalism,” or the ...

Calvin in Hell, Egbert van Heemskerck the Younger (c.1700–10). (Photo by Fine Art Images / Heritage Images / Getty Images) “To understand Liberalism, we need to understand early modern Calvinism.” ...

“The struggle of armed hosts is also a conflict of vital ideas; it is essentially a war between the fundamental principles of autocracy and those of democracy; and democracy must triumph.” Any attempt ...

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