Liberal

The Myth of the Liberal Professoriate

by Richard J. Morris

If you think about it, university professors take a fundamentally conservative outlook.

Fighting Words

by Sean Wilentz

No, “liberal” and “progressive” aren’t synonyms. They have completely different histories—and the differences matter.

In polarized era, fewer Americans hold a mix of conservative and liberal views

Reflecting growing partisan gaps across most of the individual questions in the scale – even those where both parties have shifted in the same direction – Republicans and Democrats are now further apart ideologically than at any point in more than two decades.

More ‘Progressive’ Than Thou

by Beverly Gage

When Washington reformers became ‘liberals,’ ‘progressives’ in turn became more radical.

Liberals have reason to rejoice

by Julian Zelizer

But they should still not be sanguine. They shouldn't go too far in thinking that the nation is all of a sudden trending to the left.