American Feudalism
A liberalism that divides humanity into a master class and a slave class deserves an asterisk as “white liberalism.”
Liberals Must Get Comfortable Running Counter to the Media
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.
We Can Organize
The methods of the Civil Rights Movement are still available to us today.
To My Fellow Libertarians: It's Time to Embrace the Harris-Walz Ticket
Libertarians, long used to holding their noses to pick the lesser evil or abstaining entirely, now have plenty of reasons for enthusiasm.
Neutralizing MAGA: Applying Frederick Douglass's Fugitive Philosophy
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,
In Praise of Wokeness
Don't blame woke ideas, which have merit, for the self-defeating style of politics that is pervasive online.
Finding Freedom in the Gender Phantasmagoria
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.
Against the Slave Power: the Fugitive Liberalism of Frederick Douglass
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.
Mass Deportation: If You Do It
What you'll do.
He Will Try
Only one candidate is guaranteed to try to undermine our democracy and our way of life.
C. B. Macpherson on Retrieving Liberal Radicalism
The 20th century political theorist has much to offer for the contemporary left liberal.
A Resilient Spirit Yearning for Justice: The Arab World Today
Powerlessness in the Arab World, thirteen years after the Arab Spring.
An American Reconstruction
The revolution will take place within the modes and orders of American law even as it distorts and transforms that law.