Unfriendly Skies

Price fixing and employment discrimination before airline deregulation.

Restoring Our Court

Judicial review is essential to our democracy, and that is why court reform is so important.

Four Questions for the New Industrial Policy

If we want to win the policy battles that are coming, we need to start thinking more clearly about the specifics.

Misappropriating Douglass

Frederick Douglass deserves every bit of the accolades heaped upon him, but he was not a libertarian—and this isn’t a close call.

The Democratic Peace as a Spontaneous Order

The importance of liberal democracy as a social system rather than merely as a state.

Democracy Demands Open Borders

Every immigrant is a vote for America. Every deportation is a vote against America.

Adam Smith: Left, Right, Other, or All of the Above?

On the political outlook and ideology of the great Scottish philosopher.

Only One Candidate for President in 2024 Has Made and Will Make a Mockery of the Law

Republican hysterics over the hush money verdict are nothing but a projection of the second Trump term they hope for.

Misunderstanding Early Modern Japan

Jacobin's analysis of "Shogun" betrays an ignorance of the basic history.

The Bloody River

Consolidated liberal democracy is the only path to enduring peace.

A Poisonous Tradition

Robert Kagan's "Rebellion" and America's enduring antiliberalism.

Contributing to the Liberal Project as a Writer: A Primer

How writing from the very abstract to the very particular can help to advance a liberal agenda.