Fukuyama's Glasses
Like the man himself, Francis Fukuyama's new memoir "In the Realm of the Last Man" combines startling insight and baffling contradiction.
“Network” at 50: Now We’re All Mad as Hell
Paddy Chayefsky’s take on television captured the Long 1970s—and anticipated the rise of social media.
Liberal Currents Live: Can the Final Girl Slay the Last Man?
Liberal democracy's fight to survive the fascist night.
The End of History and the Final Girl
Anton Jäger’s "Hyperpolitics" is, at its best, late marginalia for "The End of History and the Last Man." At its worst, Jäger, like Fukuyama, is a prisoner of his political pieties.
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.
Extremely Online: A Definition
Becoming Extremely Online is a choice: one that fewer of us should make.
Gender and Gender Anxiety (Neon Liberalism #83, with Katherine Cross)
So much of our politics today is driven by gender.
Graham Platner Must Go
Democrats made the Devil's bargain with Graham Platner. The Adversary has come to collect.
Nothing Ever Happens (The Editors' Chat #15)
The Editors' Chat is a monthly, freewheeling discussion among the editors of Liberal Currents. Today's episode talks
Gender Graham Crackup
For the antifeminist leftist, the HR Lady symbolizes the empty triumph of managerial liberalism and girlboss feminism, to be vanquished by a pair of sapient Carhartts.
Maistre the Prophet
In the writings of 18th-century monarchist Joseph de Maistre, we see the ur-shape of reaction: violent, irrational, modernity against itself.
Fighting the Omni-Flamewar (The Editors' Chat #14)
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