Caitlin and Trent join Associate Professor Victor Ray to talk about DEI. What is meant by DEI depends on who is using it and what they’re trying to get done. Victor explains the history of DEI as a set of legal standards that insulated companies from accusations of discrimination,
Donald Trump is heir to a long tradition of presidential misuse of federal powers and personnel against American citizens.
A great deal of the opposition has stepped up, but the opposition party needs to start truly acting like one.
A new order for America must involve a comprehensive reconstruction of our political, economic, and civic infrastructure.
Join Samantha and guest Ned Resnikoff as they discuss why Americans are so cynical about politics—and how a movement that began with the goal of returning control to the people has spiraled into the opposite outcome. Along the way they talk Robert Moses, "citizen voice" politics, how
Trent and Caitlin talk to Liberal Currents author Vikas Valiveti about the current state of scientific consensus on how trans girls and women compete in sports. What are the correct ways to measure athleticism? When does it actually matter? How should we think about fairness and the right to participate?
We discuss Abundance, media, primaries, and more.
Rogers has written a useful guide to the western conservative intellectual tradition that runs into trouble when it approaches the conservatives of our day.
The inherent contradiction of abundance conservatism.
How Trump is different from the old imperialists, and how the liberal world must respond.
It is imperative that the nihilism destroying our society be named and confronted directly if we are to have any kind of future.
Caitlin and Trent talk to Clay Jackson, a litigator from Dallas, Texas. Clay describes the disconcerting experience of having secret police show up to his door the same day he gave boilerplate know-your-rights information to some neighbors who were concerned about being targeted by ICE. They discuss the rapidly escalating
Misogyny, racism, and antisemitism all were glossed over in Ross Douthat's softball interview of Jonathan Keeperman.
“Compassion is important, but,” a beautiful turn of phrase that calls to mind the immortal words of the great leader Eddard Stark. Everything before the word "but" is horseshit.
Justice Robert Jackson's fear that "doctrinaire logic" could turn the Constitution into a "suicide pact" was warranted, but the Bill of Rights is not the problem.
The Trump administration is an affront to everything good that America has become and everything America has ever sought to be.
Reactionary immortality projects explain a lot about American political culture—above all why and how we Americans choose to panic.
Where neoliberalism required at least the performance of adherence to impersonal rules, the grift economy revels in the scam of it all.
At the richest moment in world history, in an unparalleled time of comforts and luxuries, we have elected self-harm and self-pity.
Does the oath of office I swore as an attorney for the trial court permit or even require me to defend the Constitution by force, if it is threatened by an illegitimate and authoritarian government?
Mobutu and Trump both rule by normalizing corruption, not just to enrich themselves but also to cement their own power.
Southern democracy, like every other aspect of Southern society, was shaped by the political and economic needs of the slaveholding planter class and is maintained by the MAGA movement via shame and projection.
The constitutional settlement that governed America from the end of the Volcker Shock in 1982 to the re-election of Donald Trump in 2024 encompassed three profound domains: politics, economics, and culture.
No serious person believes it’s possible to both decrease and increase the US population at the same time.