Mark Koyama - Liberal Currents

The Message Is Getting Out There. We Need Your Help to Make a New Reconstruction Possible

The Reconstruction Papers was referenced in Vox this week.

Adam Gurri Oct 16, 2026

News Roundup

An All-Out Assault on Citizenship

Voter rolls, non-public execution, white nationalist violence, and TERF Island, sinking lower.

Adam Gurri Oct 16, 2026

Public Execution

Acts of violence are a sacrament in the fascist civic religion. The new fascist man must be posted into being.

Gareth Watkins Oct 16, 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.

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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