Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society is published by the Critical Review Foundation, Inc. , a nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational organization. It was founded in 1986 by Jeffrey Friedman, who subsequently received an MA in History at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale. Jeffrey Friedman is a political scientist and the editor of ''Critical Review An Interdisciplinary Journal of Politics and Society''. A Master of Arts ( Latin: Magister Artium) is a Postgraduate academic Master's degree awarded by universities in a large The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. The initial purpose of the journal was to bring critical scrutiny to bear on libertarian and classical liberal scholarly ideas, and to subject mainstream scholarly ideas to similar scrutiny. Libertarianism is a term used by a broad spectrum of political philosophies which prioritize individual Liberty and seek to minimize or even abolish the Classical liberalism (also known as traditional liberalism, Laissez-faire liberalism, Market liberalism or in much of the world Since then, the journal has evolved into a leading scholarly forum for critically assessing the realities of democracy and capitalism. Democracy is a form of government in which the supreme power is held completely by the people under a free electoral system Capitalism is the Economic system in which the Means of production are owned by private Persons and operated for Profit and where It places particular emphasis on the actual functioning of mass democracy in the light of political scientists' demonstration of "public ignorance" of all things political, which has significant implications for such questions as electoral "mandates," media bias, academic bias, and the autonomy of state officials from public scrutiny.

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