Mark Koyama - Liberal Currents

Editor's Notes: Trump's Schutzstaffel Is Still Active and Committing Murders With Impunity

With Platner out, we turn our focus back to the Nazis already in power.

Adam Gurri Jul 10, 2026

What, to the MAGA Right, Is a Child?

The right views children as a resource rather than as human beings.

Alan Elrod Jul 10, 2026

Editor's Notes

Editor’s Notes: Somehow, We Had This Article All Ready to Go

Alternatives to Graham Platner—and a discussion of them, in this very publication—happen to have appeared.

Jason Briggeman Jul 9, 2026

Mark Koyama is an Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He was the W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell Fellow at the Hoover Institution for the 2017-2018 academic year.

3 articles

Liberalism and Jewish Emancipation

How did religious freedom first emerge? This is the theme of Persecution and Toleration (CUP, 2019). Here I focus on

Mark Koyama May 20, 2019

A Nationalism Untethered to History

With a breezy preface that approvingly references recent political developments in America and Britain, Yoram Hazony’s The Virtue of

Mark Koyama Sep 25, 2018

Did the Enlightenment Give Rise to Racism?

Slate chief political correspondent Jamelle Bouie set off a heated online debate with a series of tweets[1] claiming “the

Mark Koyama Jul 12, 2018