About
Liberal Currents publishes writers of diverse perspectives who share an unflinching commitment to freedom, pluralism, and democracy, in opposition to authoritarianism at home and around the world. Our mission is to create a home for mere liberalism, where the many conflicting currents of the liberal tradition can enter into productive conversation.
Liberalism around the world is facing its greatest crisis since the 1930s. If we rest on our laurels, we will be overtaken. We must be bold. We must exercise creativity and ingenuity. But we must never lose sight of the liberal values we seek to promote in doing so. To meet this moment, Liberal Currents promotes thinkers who advance ambitious agendas to foster a truly open society.
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Founder and Editor-in-Chief
Adam Gurri
Associate Editors
Jason Briggeman
Paul Crider
Caitlin M. Green
Samantha Hancox-Li
Adrian Rutt
AV Editor
Trent R. Nelson
Contributing Editors
Toby Buckle
Katherine Alejandra Cross
Matthew Downhour
Alan Elrod
Sophia Hottel
Jason Kuznicki
Matthew McManus
Maia Mindel
Cathy Reisenwitz
Sourodipto Roy
Adam Rust
Authors
Ahmed Ahmed
Nathan Alexander
Erika R. Alpert
Y. L. Al-Sheikh
Alex Aragona
Alfred Archer
Guillaume A. W. Attia
Ábris P. Bendek
Noah Berlatsky
Elizabeth Popp Berman
H. E. Bibbs
Robert Black
A. D. Blair
Hagen Blix
Eric Brandom
Janet Bufton
Catherine Caruso
Greg Caskey
Hunter CG
Emily Chamlee-Wright
Victoria Clutton
Alex Donovan Cole
Will Compernolle
Liam Connell
Janet Conroy-Quirk
Andy Craig
Lauren Crosby
Cameron Cummins-Smith
Kevin Currie-Knight
Firmin DeBrabander
Sebastian Delgado
Sam Deutsch
Gus diZerega
Ed Dolan
Standard Duong
Patrick Eddington
David Eil
Eiynah
Kevin J. Elliott
Kevin Erdmann
Luis Feliz Leon
Nick Felker
Pedro Fernandez
Patrick Fessenbecker
Holly Berkley Fletcher
Carolina Flores
Kyle Fruh
Ashish George
Mila Ghorayeb
Isaiah Glick
Ingeborg Glimmer
Bill Glod
Sami Gold
Nathan Goldwag
Bianca Gonzalez
Peter Michael Gratton
Patrick Greeley
Jacob Grier
Elijah Gullett
Gary T. Gunnels
Martin Gurri
Samuel Hammond
Michael B. Harris-Peyton
Cameron Harwick
Björn Hasselgren
Keira Havens
Carol Hay
Joseph Hillyard
Thomas Hitchner
Samuel Hoadley-Brill
Michael Hoffman
Piper Holland
Dan Holtmeyer
Kian Hudson
Rebecca Ann Hughes
Yameen Huq
Jay Jeffers
Tahra Jirari
Jeremiah Johnson
Alan Kahan
Daniel B. Klein
Mark Koyama
Daniel Kuehn
Quill R Kukla
Sharon Kuruvilla
Jerrod Laber
Steve Lafleur
Christopher Lane
Zeb Larson
Brink Lindsey
Jeremy Livingston
Lucy
Dennis Lytton
Sam Mace
Akiva Malamet
Doug McCullough
Mike McGraw
Brooke Medina
Branko Milanovic
Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin
Emily Monaco
Jake Monaghan
Michael J. Moore
Chris Morgan
Julie Moronuki
Isa Muhammad
Kohl Neal
Alex Norris
Nico Orlandi
Nathan Oseroff-Spicer
Chance Phillips
Elizabeth Picciuto
Gill Platek
Paul Poenicke
Aaron Rabinowitz
Victor Ray
M Riley
Will Rinehart
Melvin Rogers
Athena Rose
Paul Henry Rosenberg
Jonas Rosenthal
Anthony Sanders
Henry Sargent
Eric Schliesser
Marcus Schultz-Bergin
Matt Sleat
Ryan C. Smith
Patrick J. Sobkowski
Lucian Staiano-Daniels
Scott Starin
Vladyslav Starodubtsev
Joshua Stein
Carolyn Stewart Joseph Stieb David Stinson
Scott Strgacich
David Stromberg
Robert Talisse
Jason Tebbe
Michael Tolhurst
Rob Tracinski Oliver Traldi
Robert Tsai
Brandon Turner
Vikas Valiveti
Kevin Vallier
Gareth Watkins
Galen Watts
Danielle M. Wenner
Miles Whitney
Britton Williams
Jake Wojtowicz
Benjamin John Worthy
Kelly Wright
Owen Yeates
Podcast Guests
Spencer Ackerman
Robert Jackson Bennett
Jennifer C. Berkshire
Talia Bhatt
Jamelle Bouie
Walker Bragman
Ed Burmila
Becky Chao
Aris Clemons
Lindsey Cormack
Madiba K. Dennie
Bret Devereaux
Jack Dickinson
Jude Doyle
Joshua Erlich
Yakov Feygin
Laura K. Field
John Ghazvinian
Emily Glankler
Derek Gottlieb
Daniel Harper
Michael Edison Hayden
Adam Hochschild
Jared Holt
Jonathan Howard
Clay Jackson
Marisa Kabas
Jonathan M. Katz
Lexi Koren
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Tal B. Lavin
Anna O. Law
Audrey Lee
Alex Lefebvre
Jacob T. Levy
Dara Lind
W. David Marx
Christopher Mathias
Steven Monacelli
Amanda Moore
Phillips O'Brien
James Palmer
Melissa Fisher Paoni
John Pfaff
Aaron Ross Powell
Ned Resnikoff
Greg Sargent
Kori Schake
Jack Schneider
Rebecca Sear
Matthew Sheffield
Will Stancil
Jacqueline Sweet
Katie Talhelm
Evan Urquhart
David Vatz
Bradford Vivian
Steven Randy Waldman
Alex Zakaras
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Lauren Orsini
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Nick Dodson
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Ryan Abrams
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Drew Dean
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Chris Gittins
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Steven Hancox
Cameron Hill
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Jacob Lipton
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Andrew Ross Loomis
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Robert Mealy
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Robert Mealy
Clark Miller
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Boaz Nash
Chelsea Norman
Joel Parish
Will Sidley Parker
Casey Pifer
Patrick Porter
Charles Pratt
Evan Prellberg
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Andrew Sabl
Eric Schliesser
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Will Sidley-Parker
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