Bending the Knee at Yale
Why is it that Maurie McInnis and her fellow elites crumbled so instantaneously?
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Editor's Notes: Making the Personality Cult Salient
The public is largely unaware of just how deranged and Maoist it has gotten in the second Trump term.
Free Trade and Free People (Out of the Jaws #9, with Joshua Eakle)
Grounding liberalism in openness and dynamism.
Setting the Stage (The Opposition Report #16)
The corruption, death by ICE, one war after another, and more.
The Parasocial Style in American Politics, Part 2: Witch Hunts and Comfort Blankets
As during witch hunts, social media enables a process of rendering people into totemic figures in a war between Good and Evil.
Editor's Notes: Our Headless Opposition Party System
The opposition to Trump is diverse, diffuse, decentralized, and lacking in leadership.
The Master Key of Modern Politics?
Ibram X. Kendi's new book "Chain of Ideas" promises an alluringly straightforward model of modern politics.
Mr. Rogers With a Steel Spine (Out of the Jaws #8, with Brad Lander)
Being a better neighbor can lay the foundations for resisting authoritarianism.
Democratic Socialism Gets Serious
"The Blueprint" demonstrates how the new generation of democratic socialists are providing real, practical proposals for economic transformation.
Announcing Liberal Currents Live and Headwaters
A weekly video livestream and a weekly email roundup of what we've done.
The Third Red Scare
“Antifa” serves much the same function today that “Bolshevik” did a century ago.