The recurring question of what freedom means in the political and the everyday world.
National Income Vs. National Freedom

A nation’s income level doesn’t always correlate to its freedom level.
Land of the Increasingly Non-Free

Many young democracies with flawed institutions are struggling not to slide backward. Turkey has failed.
The End of American Exceptionalism?

America, on the road to become like Europe’s social democracies, is losing its exceptionalism.
The Double-Faced Digital Revolution

Until now we, as simple “users,” have given little thought to where this profound technical change will lead us.
Individualism and Civility: 2012 Reflections on de Tocqueville’s 1831 America
Do Americans still do justice to the ideals of individualism that Alexis de Tocqueville believed were embodied by U.S. society?
Just Who Fears Democracy? On the Need to Update the American Republic
How have today’s Europeans turned out to be the real practitioners of the American notion of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”?