Cold War Right Liberalism: The Case of Leo Strauss and the Straussians Abstract  Recently, Samuel Moyn of Yale University has contended that the left is suffering under truncated political ambitions due to the baleful influence of the intellectual architects of Cold War Liberalism. In this paper I argue that his diagnosis of the left applies […]

The Twilight of Liberalism: The Eclipse of Freedom in An Age of Autonomy Abstract  This paper argues that the faltering trajectory of political liberalism arises not from external challenges but from conceptual tensions in its founding principles.  Section 1 contests the dominant narrative of liberalism’s emergence in the seventeenth century, revealing its dependence on a […]

Toward a Freedom-Centered Feminist Historiography Abstract  This paper engages debates about the relationship between past and present feminisms to explore the political stakes of historiographic practice. The received metaphor for describing this relationship, “the waves of feminism,” is woefully inadequate for capturing the complex history of diverse struggles, generating deep dissent about who and what […]

After Liberal Utopia: Judith Shklar on Injustice, Pessimism, and Political Reform Abstract  Judith Shklar’s “liberalism of fear” has captivated interpreters since its original publication nearly 60 years ago. However, as Forrester (2011) has argued, the focus on this text has wrongly cast her as a Cold War liberal solely focused on a negative conception of […]