A Hard Look at Libertarianism
Quinn Slobodian's 2025 book provides the starting point of a more thorough post-mortem.
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Liberal Currents Live: Rape Culture, Male Supremacism, and the MAGA Right
American politics is being structured around rape as a core pillar of Trumpism.
Concede Nothing
Trans people are who we say we are, and we will fight and organize on those grounds.
Liberal Currents Live: Talarico, El-Sayed, and How to Handle the GOP's Trans Hate
How should Democratic candidates for office react to open bigotry from their opponents?
Talarico (D) Is Just a Letter to Me Now
After folding on trans rights, James Talarico does not have my respect. Honestly, fuck him. And yet, Ken Paxton (R) must lose.
Liberal Currents Live: America's Millions of Millionaires Are a Nice Problem to Have
With great wealth comes great power and great responsibility.
Liberal Currents Live: Can the Final Girl Slay the Last Man?
Liberal democracy's fight to survive the fascist night.
The World That Woke 2.0 Seeks to Build
We can learn from the Civil Rights Movement, but we can also learn from its opposition.
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 American Transgender Refugee Crisis
If this were occurring abroad, to an ethnic minority, we would call it ethnic cleansing.
You Can't Decommodify Housing If You Have No Housing (The Editors' Chat #16)
Politics can consume communities.