For all of its faults and weaknesses, no serious competitor has emerged to capture people’s imagination or seriously ...

A good and courageous man, Sakharov was a secularist and self-proclaimed socialist who had mastered the language—“democracy” and “human rights”—of Western liberalism. Daniel Mahoney is ...

He forces Western liberalism to confront itself—a reflection it would rather avoid. Liberalism survives on the illusion that it is the rational, enlightened force guiding history. It presents ...