For Tom Cotton and the Right, Violence and Cruelty Are Common Sense
The American right frequently takes unreasonable and anti-social behavior and presents it as commonplace and normal.
The American right frequently takes unreasonable and anti-social behavior and presents it as commonplace and normal.
For a century, housing has been stuck in a vicious cycle of layering bad policy atop bad policy. It is imperative that we end it.
On the importance of a strong inside strategy.
Ian Dunt's How To Be a Liberal is a history of liberalism's conflicted nature and a call to arms for a dynamic, inclusive liberalism.
Implementing YIMBY reforms in New York City.
Trump, Orbán, revival, and the superficial strongman.
Putin's selective recounting of Russia's history with Ukraine speaks volumes.
A review of Alan Kahan's history of liberalism.
With all the drawbacks upon government which fancy can depict, or imagination conjure up, society possessing it, is as paradise to pandemonium, compared with society without it.
The classics are neither self-help books nor sources of conservative propaganda
A leftist alternative to originalism is needed now more than ever
How American Christianity moved from right-wing activism to outright idolatry in the Trump era
Rufo is the latest in a long line of conservatives who project their own victimhood to mobilize support
A review of Patrick Deneen's Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future.
The esteemed political scientist and founding editor of American Purpose, Francis Fukuyama, has taken aim at woke liberalism, which he defines as “[interpreting inequality not as] between broad social classes like bourgeois and proletariat, but rather as the marginalization of narrower identity groups based on race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual
An interview with the founder of the Resistance and Opposition Arts Review (ROAR)
How the proliferation of guns in private life leads to draconian restrictions in public life
Horizontalism and its discontents
The US has failed to deliver on its promise of a rules based international order.
We must protect our culture from a reactionary community.
When organizations take positions on issues beyond their remit, they make it harder to build big tents around their own issues.
Contrasting Samuel Moyn's vision of Cold War liberalism with Joshua Cherniss's.
Taking an important idea back from the right
On Elizabeth Anderson's Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back
Safeguarding personal and social autonomy from the ever changing conditions of modernity
What if the population of Ireland today was seventy million?
Sortition can make the university system more egalitarian.
Samuel Moyn argues that Cold War liberals abandoned liberalism's revolutionary promise.
Western liberals have not extended the same solidarity to the Palestinian people that they did to the Ukrainians.
Joe Biden started his political career blasé about the Vietnam War. He is ending it blasé about Palestinian genocide. In 1972, while campaigning for his first term in the senate, Joe Biden couldn’t muster up the moral outrage needed to condemn the Vietnam War. Despite the twenty-fold increase in
Identity politics is vital for liberalism precisely because oppression is never neutral, color-blind, or universal.
From Russia to China, from Azerbaijan to Israel and Palestine, fascist political projects are gaining strength.