What Are Democrats Thinking?
Democratic voters want to end the filibuster, nationalize artificial intelligence, and prosecute every Trump toady.
Democracy and Its Discontents
In 2010, Ken Minogue penned his last full-length book The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life. As
Social Democracy Has a Drug Problem
Senator Cory Booker’s bill to legalize marijuana is righteous and beautiful. It is well-timed and well-crafted. It
How Hot Takes Expand Our Capabilities
Drawing primarily on Karl Popper, Oliver Traldi argues that hot take culture diminishes our desire or ability to quietly reflect
LC Podcast #2: Sam Hammond on Capitalism and Social Justice
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Trump's Rhetoric Is Dangerous Even If He's Ineffective
It has been almost eight months since Donald Trump took office. If the rest of his term looks like these
Liberalism and Social Action: The Relevance of John Dewey
“The only sin,” Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in 1841, “is limitation.” It was in this spirit (and under this influence)
Partisanship, Popper, and Painfully Hot Takes
Here’s something I’m ashamed of: Sometimes when I see a movie or read a novel and I’m
In Praise of Chains: How Public Choice Helps Us Understand and Fight Racism
In American politics, it is sometimes claimed that democratic majorities must never be “in chains,” as the historian Nancy MacLean
Beyond the Freedom of the Void
The liberal tradition is centrally concerned with liberty. But the different currents within liberal thought naturally differ in their conceptions
Actually, Hot Take Culture Is Good
“Hot take” is among the most withering of insults available to describe a piece of opinion writing these days. We
Gender as Art
Gender is both strange and hard to think about. Anyone who tells you otherwise probably hasn’t given it much
There is No True Liberal
Those who have wrestled with the frustrating but seemingly trivial topic of political labels know that to embark on an