A Hard Look at Libertarianism
Quinn Slobodian's 2025 book provides the starting point of a more thorough post-mortem.
37 articles
Liberal Currents Live: The Cheap Precision Strike and the New Way of Raiding
Are drones fundamentally altering the nature of war for the worse, not for the better?
The Ark and the Deluge: The Unfurling of Equality in World History
Chapter 21 (pp. 169–175) from The Reconstruction Papers.
You Should Read Keynes
Keynes was a liberal for our age: morally serious, hopeful for a better future, and yet reconciled to the compromises necessary to preserve the fragile liberal order.
Liberal Currents Live: America's Millions of Millionaires Are a Nice Problem to Have
With great wealth comes great power and great responsibility.
Liberal Currents Live: Can the Final Girl Slay the Last Man?
Liberal democracy's fight to survive the fascist night.
Liberal Currents Live: Russia and Ukraine—All the Ruin That Putin Can Buy
Vladimir Putin does not care about Russian lives or Russian territory. For dictators like him, those things are negotiable.
After 1989
The current crisis of democracy was not inevitable, but a result of hubris and shortsightedness among generations of statesmen.
Liberal Currents Live: J. K. Rowling and the Problem of the Extremely Online Elites
So much can be explained by the overcooking of these people's brains on X.
Liberal Currents Live: Natalie Harp Is the Most Powerful Woman in the World
And that's why we have to talk about Natalie.
The Reasonable Liberal
We must begin the process of making our political rivals not just more legible but human in a way we can also recognize in ourselves.