Liberalism for the 21st Century
We must stop shadowboxing old enemies and focus on reactionaries holding the daggers to our throats today.
Paul Crider
Paul Crider is a husband and father living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He daylights as a semiconductor engineer but otherwise likes to spend his time reading and writing.
The Liberal Currents Canon, or Some Good Books
From time to time we get asked for recommended reading. The topics vary, but given the nature of Liberal Currents there are certainly recurring themes. By the same token, there are a few books that a number of us have read and talked about together, and are relatively well known
Who's Really Zero-Sum?
As is so often the case with insults hurled at liberals, the charge of zerosumness is one of rightwing projection.
editorschat
The Editors' Chat #4
We discuss Tesla, the courts as an impediment to Trump, Epstein, and more.
Free Trade, Free Movement, and the Cosmopolitan Coalition
Theirs was a vision of a world united in peace, in a federation of democratic states (if not a world state), with no barriers to the movement of goods and free, enterprising human beings, the baleful presence of oppression, inequality, and inherited privilege long forgotten.
editorschat
The Editors' Chat #2
We discuss Abundance, media, primaries, and more.
editorschat
The Editors' Chat #1
The first episode of our patron-only podcast.
Inheritance of Equals: A Case for Liberal Socialism
Things literally cannot go on as they have before the present democratic crisis—things have been broken and will have to be put back together somehow. Ideas that were unthinkable even a decade ago may see their chance in the sun. It is time for liberal socialism.
neonliberalism
Neon Liberalism #19: Liberal...Socialism?
Samantha and fellow Liberal Currents editor Paul Crider talk to Matt McManus, author of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism, about a forgotten political tradition, the intellectual fallout of the Russian Revolution, and what this all means for how we think about the contemporary dangers of oligarchy and reaction. Liberal.
neonliberalism
Neon Liberalism #11: Immigration Is Good, Actually
Trump II is upon us, and the administration has already taken aim to reduce citizenship rights and deport immigrants, despite the longstanding truth that arguments against immigration don't hold much water. Liberal Currents associate editor Paul Crider joins Samantha and Jason to describe the new Republican restrictionism and
American Feudalism
A liberalism that divides humanity into a master class and a slave class deserves an asterisk as “white liberalism.”
Neutralizing MAGA: Applying Frederick Douglass's Fugitive Philosophy
Governments must be a terror to evildoers if they would be praised to those who do well. It will not do for a government with the knife of treason at its throat, to bear the sword in vain. [Lecture on Haiti, 1893] Frederick Douglass lived the life of a fugitive,