Liberal democracy is decaying because its values have been carried to excess or are obsolete for effectively addressing society's contemporary challenges. The loss of American military, technological, and economic hegemony-through the rise of competitors and increased interdependence-has...

Ideology and policy research are intertwined in many ways; an example is Murray's Losing Ground which uses "science" to justify racial, sexual, and class discrimination. Murray is utterly faithful to the neoconservative version of how liberalism went wrong in the 1960s. He says an intellectual...