Freedom from Fear and the Specter of Perfection
A review of Alan Kahan's history of liberalism.
A review of Alan Kahan's history of liberalism.
republications
With all the drawbacks upon government which fancy can depict, or imagination conjure up, society possessing it, is as paradise to pandemonium, compared with society without it.
The classics are neither self-help books nor sources of conservative propaganda
A leftist alternative to originalism is needed now more than ever
How American Christianity moved from right-wing activism to outright idolatry in the Trump era
Rufo is the latest in a long line of conservatives who project their own victimhood to mobilize support
A review of Patrick Deneen's Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future.
Liberal Currents offers discussion, elucidation, and defense of liberal principles and institutions.
The esteemed political scientist and founding editor of American Purpose, Francis Fukuyama, has taken aim at woke liberalism, which he defines as “[interpreting inequality not as] between broad social classes like bourgeois and proletariat, but rather as the marginalization of narrower identity groups based on race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual
An interview with the founder of the Resistance and Opposition Arts Review (ROAR)
How the proliferation of guns in private life leads to draconian restrictions in public life
Horizontalism and its discontents
The US has failed to deliver on its promise of a rules based international order.
We must protect our culture from a reactionary community.
When organizations take positions on issues beyond their remit, they make it harder to build big tents around their own issues.
Contrasting Samuel Moyn's vision of Cold War liberalism with Joshua Cherniss's.
Taking an important idea back from the right
On Elizabeth Anderson's Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back
Safeguarding personal and social autonomy from the ever changing conditions of modernity
What if the population of Ireland today was seventy million?