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The Constitution is not in heaven. Without honorable and virtuous public officials, constitutional limits have no meaning.
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Murder in Minneapolis
What this violent crime perpetrated by agents of the state means for the next three years.
We Need to Get Off the Defensive About Immigration
Free movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it.
To My Students on the Anniversary of January 6
The political violence of the Trump era is all today's teenagers have ever known.
Neon Liberalism #58: We Are Going to Win
Take a step back and recall where you were on election night 2024. Recall the way the future looked in January 2025 at Trump's inauguration. In this episode, Samantha and Adam Gurri, editor-in-chief of Liberal Currents, evaluate the long game against Trump—and argue that the Trump revolution
The Opposition Report #9
Venezuela, Epstein, purchased pardons, and more.
The Logic of Liberalism
Contra the dreams of populist strongmen, real constraints on executive power are the only approach consistent with real freedom.
Mamdani Teaches Us How to Speak the Language of Illegitimacy
How should the next Democratic government act on the belief that Trump's second term was lawless and illegitimate?
Promoting a New Segregation
The Trump administration wants to make anti-Black racism great again.
Liberal Currents in 2026
A brief outline of our plan, and an update on the rate we pay to authors.
We Are Going to Win
Trump's revolution will fail, but we still have a long and painful road ahead of us.
Are We Prometheans? "The Permanent Problem," Reviewed
The future requires a vision of gender that is not some reskinned picket-fence fantasy, but a true human ideal.
The Covid Pro-Infection Lobby and Its Relentless Campaign Against Public Health
As documented in Jonathan Howard’s “Everyone Else is Lying to You,” the same pro-infection lobby that battled each covid mitigation measure now seeks to blame health agencies and vaccines, not the virus, for the nation’s devastating rates of excess death.
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Half the Answer #56: The Imaginary "War on Science"—and the Real One
Trent and Caitlin talk with philosophy of science expert Nathan Oseroff-Spicer about his review of the book "The War On Science," how the book misses the mark, what strategies its authors use to downplay the threats from the right and fabricate a threat from the left, and what
Merry Christmas, I Don’t Want to Fight: Trump’s White House UFC Event and the Politics of Violence
Donald Trump is seeking to elevate America’s most violent professional sport to an emblem of national identity.
Reviewer Judge Words in Book: Bronze Age Mindset, Reviewed
We can be more and better than conquerors and thieves.
The Biggest Thing Since Steam
Flipping the renewable energy script.
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Neon Liberalism #57: Why Did the Soviets Fail?
As we stand on the brink of a new Cold War, it's time to look back at the first Cold War and try to understand why America won—and, more importantly, why the USSR lost. Samantha and guest Yakov Feygin, author of Building a Ruin, talk about the
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Half the Answer #55: What Do Republicans Know?
Caitlin and Trent talk with Matthew Sheffield about his experiences as a former Republican strategist and the information he wants progressives to know about their strategies and successes. Half the Answer can be heard on Spotify, on Apple, on YouTube, on Amazon, and elsewhere via its RSS feed. Resources: https:
China Between Ogre and Olympus
China may well become the singular Olympus that all mere mortals look up to, but so long as this Olympus is home to Ogres it will struggle to compel the allegiance of the wider world.
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The Editors' Chat #9
The Liberal Currents Startup Fund, right wing entryism, caveman accents, and more.
A Tent Big Enough for Bigots but Too Small for Critical Race Theory
Like so many of critical race theory's detractors, Matthew Yglesias fails to engage with the actual scholarship.
A New Season of Hope
Looking back on this year's battlegrounds, looking ahead to 2026 and beyond.
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The Opposition Report #8
An announcement, Pete Hegseth, Abrego Garcia, and more.