Editors’ note: “Democracy in America: a symposium” examines the status of popular sovereignty in the United States today, nearly two centuries after the seminal work of the political theorist Alexis ...
One sign that a fundamental change is in the offing would be a new commitment to free speech. Unfortunately, that is one traditional liberal virtue that is under greater siege today than at any time ...
William Sartain, after Thomas Phillips, Portrait of Byron, 1868, Mezzotint, The Print Collection of the New York Public Library. “Byron: A Life in Motion,” at the New York Public Library’s Stephen A.