Daniel B. Klein - Liberal Currents

Extremely Online: A Definition

Becoming Extremely Online is a choice: one that fewer of us should make.

Katherine Alejandra Cross Aug 27, 2026

The Trump Trainwreck

The president’s choices at home and abroad are boosting Democrats’ chances in November.

Nicholas Grossman Aug 26, 2026

A Republic of Excuses

You will not like it here and it will get worse until we get better.

Justin Briley Aug 25, 2026

Daniel Klein is professor of economics and JIN Chair at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he leads a program in Adam Smith, and associate fellow at the Ratio Institute, Stockholm.

2 articles

Adam Smith: Left, Right, Other, or All of the Above?

On the political outlook and ideology of the great Scottish philosopher.

Daniel B. Klein, Branko Milanovic Jun 7, 2024

The Warm Liberalism of Erik Gustaf Geijer

* The new volume Freedom in Sweden: Selected Works of Erik Gustaf Geijer, ed. Björn Hasselgren, trans. P. C. Hogg (Timbro,

Björn Hasselgren, Daniel B. Klein Dec 6, 2017