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.
The Master Key of Modern Politics?
Ibram X. Kendi's new book "Chain of Ideas" promises an alluringly straightforward model of modern politics.
Trump Didn't Invent the Tribunate Presidency
John Adams' rocky presidency illuminates the long-running conflicts over how Americans conceive of the executive power.
The Empire of Reason
Citizens of liberal democratic societies have grown rich and prosperous off the ideology of rational control, but have unfortunately become complacent in its defense.
The Blood Circle
Alexis de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill were part of a small but blood-soaked circle of liberal thinkers who embraced the murderous logic of empire.
Return of the White Man's Burden
Just as in a previous age of colonialism, today's neo-imperialists justify themselves in terms of "uplifting" inferior foreign peoples.
And Should I at Your Harmless Innocence Melt?
The promise of future blessedness can never authorize the murder of innocent human beings and the desacralization of the human form.