In Defense of “Yard-Sign Libertarianism”
"No Human is Illegal" is an ideal we can appeal to, however imperfectly it is put into practice.
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Liberalism on Its Own Terms: Alexandre Lefebvre's "Liberalism As a Way of Life"
Lefebvre articulates a clear and accessible vision for a new type of society.
Liberals Must Get Comfortable Running Counter to the Media
Vocal pushback to harmful stories about DEI or trans healthcare won’t crumple the media or rob it of its ability to stand up against oppression.
We Can Organize
The methods of the Civil Rights Movement are still available to us today.
To My Fellow Libertarians: It's Time to Embrace the Harris-Walz Ticket
Libertarians, long used to holding their noses to pick the lesser evil or abstaining entirely, now have plenty of reasons for enthusiasm.
Neutralizing MAGA: Applying Frederick Douglass's Fugitive Philosophy
Governments must be a terror to evildoers if they would be praised to those who do well. It will not do for a government with the knife of treason at its throat, to bear the sword in vain. [Lecture on Haiti, 1893] Frederick Douglass lived the life of a fugitive,
In Praise of Wokeness
Don't blame woke ideas, which have merit, for the self-defeating style of politics that is pervasive online.
Finding Freedom in the Gender Phantasmagoria
The parts Butler does what they do best – academic analysis of gender and culture – are excellent, but they sit uneasily alongside an awkward and insistent self-defense.
Against the Slave Power: the Fugitive Liberalism of Frederick Douglass
Douglass elaborated a political theory from his experiences as a slave, where institutions were directed against people like him. He had to become attuned to the differential character of law as it applied to slaves and other outlaws.
Mass Deportation: If You Do It
What you'll do.
He Will Try
Only one candidate is guaranteed to try to undermine our democracy and our way of life.
C. B. Macpherson on Retrieving Liberal Radicalism
The 20th century political theorist has much to offer for the contemporary left liberal.
A Resilient Spirit Yearning for Justice: The Arab World Today
Powerlessness in the Arab World, thirteen years after the Arab Spring.
An American Reconstruction
The revolution will take place within the modes and orders of American law even as it distorts and transforms that law.
For Non-Binary Arkansans, No ID, No Entry Into Public Life
The governor of Arkansas has intentionally demeaned minority communities in a state where their position is already precarious.
Elections Are Purely Practical
Don’t be vain about your vote.
The Case Against Despair
In politics sometimes you’re in government, sometimes you’re in the opposition, and sometimes you’re a dissident.
Yes to a Living City: Applying Jacobs' Principles to New York's Rezoning
The urbanism of Jane Jacobs, then and now.
The Courts and the Personalist Presidency
The erosion of democratic institutions on behalf of lobbyists, courts, and arbitrary personalism.
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.