American Feudalism
A liberalism that divides humanity into a master class and a slave class deserves an asterisk as “white liberalism.”
A liberalism that divides humanity into a master class and a slave class deserves an asterisk as “white liberalism.”
The modern world made the open society possible, but also empowered people seeking to undermine it.
The rentier economy that has a stranglehold on American quality of life includes a lot more than one percent of the population.
The work of preserving liberalism is perpetual.
The way forward is clear.
"No Human is Illegal" is an ideal we can appeal to, however imperfectly it is put into practice.
Lefebvre articulates a clear and accessible vision for a new type of society.
Liberal Currents offers discussion, elucidation, and defense of liberal principles and institutions.
Vocal pushback to harmful stories about DEI or trans healthcare won’t crumple the media or rob it of its ability to stand up against oppression.
The methods of the Civil Rights Movement are still available to us today.
Libertarians, long used to holding their noses to pick the lesser evil or abstaining entirely, now have plenty of reasons for enthusiasm.
Governments must be a terror to evildoers if they would be praised to those who do well. It will not do for a government with the knife of treason at its throat, to bear the sword in vain. [Lecture on Haiti, 1893] Frederick Douglass lived the life of a fugitive,
Don't blame woke ideas, which have merit, for the self-defeating style of politics that is pervasive online.
The parts where Butler does what they do best—academic analysis of gender and culture—are excellent, but they sit uneasily alongside an awkward and insistent self-defense.
Douglass elaborated a political theory from his experiences as a slave, where institutions were directed against people like him. He had to become attuned to the differential character of law as it applied to slaves and other outlaws.
What you'll do.
Only one candidate is guaranteed to try to undermine our democracy and our way of life.
The 20th century political theorist has much to offer for the contemporary left liberal.
Powerlessness in the Arab World, thirteen years after the Arab Spring.
The revolution will take place within the modes and orders of American law even as it distorts and transforms that law.