When East Germany Was a Center of the World
A look at the first globalization.
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Why (Almost) Everyone Can Endorse a Liberal Framework
Even most liberal-skeptical radicals have good reason to endorse a basic liberal framework.
A UBI in the United States May Necessitate Land Value Taxes
Towards a Georgist public finance regime for state level universal basic income.
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 Vicious Cycle of American Housing
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.
How Movements Win
On the importance of a strong inside strategy.
An Arrow Against All Illiberals
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.
A City of Liberalism Means Becoming a City of Yes
Implementing YIMBY reforms in New York City.
Magic Kingdom Authoritarianism
Trump, Orbán, revival, and the superficial strongman.
The History Putin Would Rather Forget
Putin's selective recounting of Russia's history with Ukraine speaks volumes.
Freedom from Fear and the Specter of Perfection
A review of Alan Kahan's history of liberalism.
Is Civil Government Right?
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.