Liberalism’s Empirical Turn
Contrasting Samuel Moyn's vision of Cold War liberalism with Joshua Cherniss's.
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In Defense of Economic Liberty
Taking an important idea back from the right
Work Against the Poor
On Elizabeth Anderson's Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back
The Cosmic Tragedy of Modernity and the Virtues of Liberalism
Safeguarding personal and social autonomy from the ever changing conditions of modernity
Recalling the Irish Diaspora
What if the population of Ireland today was seventy million?
It's Time to Sort the University
Sortition can make the university system more egalitarian.
Samuel Moyn on the Abandonment of Revolutionary Liberalism
Samuel Moyn argues that Cold War liberals abandoned liberalism's revolutionary promise.
Western Liberals Need to Extend the Same Humanity to Gaza as They Did to Ukraine
Western liberals have not extended the same solidarity to the Palestinian people that they did to the Ukrainians.
A Tragic Mistake Based on a Faulty Premise
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
The Liberal Centrist Trap
Identity politics is vital for liberalism precisely because oppression is never neutral, color-blind, or universal.
Fascism and the Unlearned Lessons of the Twentieth Century
From Russia to China, from Azerbaijan to Israel and Palestine, fascist political projects are gaining strength.
Statement on the Events in Israel and Gaza
To be a liberal is to be for the party of humanity: For human rights and human dignity for all persons regardless of nation, color, or creed. Last Saturday, Hamas perpetrated a horrific attack on civilians, in violation of these universal rights. Hamas should immediately free its hostages without condition.