
Trump's Lawlessness Has Historical Roots
Donald Trump is heir to a long tradition of presidential misuse of federal powers and personnel against American citizens.
Donald Trump is heir to a long tradition of presidential misuse of federal powers and personnel against American citizens.
A great deal of the opposition has stepped up, but the opposition party needs to start truly acting like one.
A new order for America must involve a comprehensive reconstruction of our political, economic, and civic infrastructure.
Rogers has written a useful guide to the western conservative intellectual tradition that runs into trouble when it approaches the conservatives of our day.
The inherent contradiction of abundance conservatism.
How Trump is different from the old imperialists, and how the liberal world must respond.
It is imperative that the nihilism destroying our society be named and confronted directly if we are to have any kind of future.
Liberal Currents offers discussion, elucidation, and defense of liberal principles and institutions.
Rogers has written a useful guide to the western conservative intellectual tradition that runs into trouble when it approaches the conservatives of our day.
The inherent contradiction of abundance conservatism.
How Trump is different from the old imperialists, and how the liberal world must respond.
It is imperative that the nihilism destroying our society be named and confronted directly if we are to have any kind of future.
Caitlin and Trent talk to Clay Jackson, a litigator from Dallas, Texas. Clay describes the disconcerting experience of having secret police show up to his door the same day he gave boilerplate know-your-rights information to some neighbors who were concerned about being targeted by ICE. They discuss the rapidly escalating
Treating America’s soldiers and sailors like scared children, too delicate to read a history of lynching, shows the administration’s deep contempt for them.
Trent and Caitlin speak with cognitive scientist, linguist, and AI researcher Hagen Blix about his book, co-authored with Ingeborg Glimmer, called Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares. What do those selling AI-branded products have to gain from telling everybody that AI could take over the world? What
How media systems work, how ours came to be, and where we go from here.
The right-wing destruction of American higher education institutions is a strategic move. Liberals need to answer with a strategy of their own.
Nathan Hochman was fired from the DeSantis campaign for making a transparently neoNazi video featuring the Governor, and has only doubled down on his white nationalism since.
Even in seemingly powerless positions, the choice to withdraw one’s support from corrupt systems remains a meaningful assertion of humanity.
Join Samantha and guest Will Stancil as they talk the vexed question of whether politics is driven by merely material conditions, ask why tyrants are obsessed with their own popularity, and assess why the Democratic budget standoff fizzled while Chris Van Hollen's trip to El Salvador broke through—