Gareth Watkins - 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

Gareth Watkins is a writer from Manchester, UK whose work has appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Tribune, Vulture, MEL, New Socialist. He is also the host of the podcast Death Sentence.

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“Adolescence” and the Right’s War on Men

A large part of the media today is devoted solely to making men into terrible people.

Gareth Watkins Apr 7, 2025