Tribes, Coalitions, Parties
A theory of how political organizations form, cooperate, rise, and decline.
Janet Bufton
Janet Bufton is a writer, editor, and speaker based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She co-founded the Institute for Liberal Studies and sits on the advisory board of the World Anti-Extremism Network.
Essays
A Liberalism of Principle, Not Program
Slavery’s opponents knew how to keep things simple. Today’s liberals should do likewise.
The Liberal Spirit of System
The “man of system” is a famous figure in the work of Adam Smith, and not in a good way. And yet we all think in systems. They can be both beautiful and helpful. What gives?
Podcasts
The Hidden Costs of Political Alliances (with Janet Bufton)
Every political alliance asks its members to set some disagreements aside, but what happens to our ideas when we stop raising them? Host Aaron Ross Powell talks with Janet Bufton, a Contributing Fellow at Liberalism.org and co-founder of the…
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