In Search of an FDR Consensus: The Future of an American Foreign and Defense Policy
Chapter 18 (pp. 140–153) from The Reconstruction Papers.
Reject the Poison: Towards an Honest Mass Politics
An honest mass politics sets the center of gravity of self-governance in legislatures, not in technocratic antipolitics or caudillismo hyperpolitics.
Perry Bacon of The New Republic Talks About The Reconstruction Papers With Adam Gurri
The Reconstruction Papers are steadily gaining attention. This Monday I was invited onto Right Now With Perry Bacon, a podcast
Is the United States of America a Republic, and Not a Democracy?
Putting a meaningless distinction to bed.
Nothing Ever Happens (The Editors' Chat #15)
The Editors' Chat is a monthly, freewheeling discussion among the editors of Liberal Currents. Today's episode talks
America's 250th Birthday Party and the Green Reflecting Pool (Half the Answer #91, with Amanda Moore)
Why won't Gregory Bovino stay gone? Why can't Trump keep his pool clean? And how many
The War on Reconstruction
The Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling on birthright citizenship is just one battle in the right's larger war on the Second Founding.
Liberal Currents Will Be at ISMA's Liberalism for the 21st Century Conference
The Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism will host a conference on Liberalism in the 21st Century on July
Editor's Notes: Court Reform Is Table Stakes
The next Democratic trifecta must implement a court reform package that defangs these lawless, Trumpist judges.
African Slavery in America
So much innocent blood have the managers and supporters of this inhuman trade to answer for.
