For eight decades the West, especially European nations, treated markets as neutral arenas governed by rules—not power. That era is over. The global economy is now shaped by rivalry, coercion, and ...

American politics is in flux. Apart from deep-blue enclaves, once-dominant progressivism is on the ropes. Globalization-friendly elitist conservatism has also lost influence, including among ...

Sarah Thomas reviews Cass Sunstein’s new book On Liberalism, finding it worthwhile in articulating the meaning of liberalism in our cultural moment. While there is much to value in Sunstein’s ...

Davos, Switzerland - It’s a quirk of the calendar that the U.S. presidential inauguration takes place the same day as the start of the World Economic Forum here in the Swiss Alps. But it’s not just ...

Hungarian social theorist Karl Polanyi is best known for his exploration of the collapse of liberal institutions that occurred between 1914 and 1945. His book, The Great Transformation, traces the ...

Huge economic ramifications are at stake from the inevitable Liberal Party leadership showdown. There is a lot more riding on the leadership tussle than simply the personality who will lead the centre ...

The world has entered a period of extraordinary turmoil and uncertainty characterized by, among other disruptive developments, the breakdown of the international economic order that has existed since ...

Conservative first-year students are more likely to want to study economics while liberals are eyeing a degree in political science, data from The Herald’s First-Year Poll shows. Among students who ...