Editors' Notes: Representative Assemblies As the Locus of Democracy
Though we could not cover everything, we managed to pull together twenty-two essays in The Reconstruction Papers. As we
The Dirtbags Won’t Save Us
There is no path out of our present crisis offered by the exultation of callousness.
Callais Affects More Than Just Congress
State supreme courts have quietly become among the most politically significant institutions in American life.
Paid Subscribers Can Download a PDF of The Reconstruction Papers Now
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Editors' Notes: Representative Assemblies As the Locus of Democracy
Though we could not cover everything, we managed to pull together twenty-two essays in The Reconstruction Papers. As we
The Legalization of Sports Gambling in America (Half the Answer #89, with Danny Funt)
How did sports betting burst onto the scene so violently in the last half-decade? Danny Funt, author of Everybody
The Return of Political Violence
Today’s levels of political violence are much lower than America's worst eras, but the trends strongly resemble their beginnings.
Starmer Out
Starmer did not "do nothing": he made the country radically more regressive. No wonder he fell.
Editor's Notes: The Endurance of Biopolitics
Insurgent right-wing parties across the Western world have made population composition the objective of their political movements.
National Security Strategy for a Democratic Congress
A Democratic Congress can work to limit the Trump administration's damage to American power and prestige around the world.
Editor's Notes: The Arc of Personalism
Self-aggrandizement has driven many of the decisions made in the Trump administration.
The Supreme Court Is Broken (Neon Liberalism #79, with Madiba Dennie)
The Supreme Court has never occupied a more central place in American governance. Republican dominance on that court has enabled
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Pragmatism Not Philosophy (Out of the Jaws #4, with the Soy Pill)
The Soy Pill (Niels Griedel) joins Ryan and Adam to discuss his political awakening, navigating the new media, whether Adam
Socialism and Liberalism Reconciled? (Out of the Jaws #3, with Silvaria Lysandra Zemaitis)
Is abolishing ICE the most important path to fixing the civil service? Can socialism and liberalism be reconciled? Are neither
Has Liberalism Forgotten Civic Virtue? (Out of the Jaws #2, with J. J. McCullough)
Has liberalism forgotten civic virtue? Liberal commentator Ryan Geddie and Liberal Currents publisher Adam Gurri talk with Canadian political commentator,
The Two American Reconstructions: An Appraisal, Reflection (Half the Answer #86, with Thomas Zimmer)
What was the first American Reconstruction after the Civil War? Why are some historians suggesting we just left a second