Announcing Our Weekly Books Newsletter
Kim Phillips-Fein, Teresa M. Bejan, Sergio Luzzatto, Logan Wright, Minxin Pei, Odd Arne Westad, and Chen Jian.
Liberal Currents Live: Voters On the March Worldwide
Voting hard was an effective anti-dictator strategy this week in Serbia and Brazil.
Born in Horror: A Moral Reading of “The Liberalism of Fear”
Liberals have had their politics shaped by the horrors of history, and as a result, have developed a mature distaste for cruelty.
Liberal Currents Live: The GOP's Desperate Times and Degrading Measures
Vivek Ramaswamy takes Republicans to new depths as the voters' judgment looms.
Liberal Currents Live: Libertarianism Captured by Racism
Was it inevitable that bigotry would become so dominant within libertarianism, or could it all have gone differently?
China According to China
The Pax Sinica to which Xi Jinping aspires will be no imperialism-free paradise, but a world made safe for autocracy and domestic terror.
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.