The Globalist

The recurring question of what freedom means in the political and the everyday world.

Are established democracies sliding back on democratic commitments?

A nation’s income level doesn’t always correlate to its freedom level.

A quarter of countries are not free. Where are they located?

Many young democracies with flawed institutions are struggling not to slide backward. Turkey has failed.

America, on the road to become like Europe’s social democracies, is losing its exceptionalism.

Until now we, as simple “users,” have given little thought to where this profound technical change will lead us.

A call to freedom’s real arms.

Do Americans still do justice to the ideals of individualism that Alexis de Tocqueville believed were embodied by U.S. society?

How have today’s Europeans turned out to be the real practitioners of the American notion of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”?