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A Century of Backsliding on Immigration
Those who live in the West have the tendency to view history, and their societies in particular, as getting more
Placing Hegel in the Liberal Tradition: Elias Buchetmann’s "Hegel and the Representative Constitution"
Thomas Nipperdey began his magisterial history of modern Germany proclaiming, “in the beginning there was Napoleon.” In the popular conception
The Political Economy of Patriarchy
There’s a new program of anti–trans and increasingly anti-queer simpliciter politics sweeping across America. After they lost
Liberal Skepticism and the Gender Identity Culture Wars
This essay is cross-published on Substack for the author’s paying subscribers. In the Smithian version of its origin
Go Woke, Go Broke?
Conservatives recently had an apoplectic fit over Bud Light’s product placement making some sort of partnership with transgender TikTok
Understanding Liberalism in Moral Terms: Michael Walzer's "The Struggle for Decent Politics"
For friends of liberalism, to be liberal-minded means possessing a broad curiosity about all things unbridled by prejudice or
YIMBYism for Colleges
Since 1980, the average price of tuition has risen over 1000%, far outpacing the rate of inflation. This presents a
Lessons for a New Cold War
I am a child of the 90s. America had emerged from the long twilight struggle of the Cold War victorious,
Liberals of the Anthropocene
Liberals have an environmental problem. Many, if not most, liberals understand that climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions and
Let's Wreck Some Norms and Take the Court Down a Peg
It may be difficult to believe today, but Congress was once a force to be reckoned with. The pinnacle of
Revisiting Tony Smith's "Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism"
Recent decades have been kind to liberal and Marxist attempts at dialogue. But old animosities are like Henry Kissinger; they
The Number of Geopolitical “Poles” is Irrelevant Compared to their Disposition
The discourse about the structure of the world political order has come to turn increasingly around the question of ‘poles’