What Are Democrats Thinking?
Democratic voters want to end the filibuster, nationalize artificial intelligence, and prosecute every Trump toady.
The Identity Paradox: Liberalism, Tolerance, and the Challenges of Recognition
In the wake of the maelstrom (or, perhaps, horrific dumpster fire) that has marked our entry into a worrying, dark
The Warm Liberalism of Erik Gustaf Geijer
* The new volume Freedom in Sweden: Selected Works of Erik Gustaf Geijer, ed. Björn Hasselgren, trans. P. C. Hogg (Timbro,
The Meaning of the Gettysburg Address, 154 Years Later
“Four score and seven years ago” are words Americans learn in school and hear echoed in popular culture. To the
The Game Theory of Why We Should Believe Allegations of Sexual Misconduct
The importance of believing the victims of sexual misconduct prior to, and even in lieu of, hard evidence in support
The White Dudes of Liberalism
When a critical concentration of white men are present in early days of a movement or ideology, it sets in
What, to an American, Is the National Anthem?
America is a nation overflowing with love for our sports, if not always for our teams. There is a special
Queen of Bebop and Pathbreaker
Jazz is intimately tied up with freedom. It has deep origins in African-American spirituals and other mixes of slave
Anarchism: Liberal Threat or Liberal Critique?
Anarchism is surely underrated in the popular mindset, unjustly besmirched as it is by thesauruses juxtaposing anarchy with chaos and
The Language of Cities
The power of the written word is hard to overestimate. The printing press is usually blamed for the European wars
The Minefield of Prejudice
One common approach for discrediting an opponent’s ideas without engaging with them on their merits is to attempt to
Steve Bannon, Minister of Propaganda
As the headlines on August 18th blared out the news of Steve Bannon’s firing, a wave of relief seemed
Against the Front Porch
In mid-March of 1969, John Kennedy Toole visited Milledgeville, Georgia, the home of famous southern Gothic author Flannery O’