The Reasonable Liberal
We must begin the process of making our political rivals not just more legible but human in a way we can also recognize in ourselves.
The Reasonable Liberal
We must begin the process of making our political rivals not just more legible but human in a way we can also recognize in ourselves.
The Western Hemisphere After Trump
The aim of neighborly and mutual integration with the Western Hemisphere, including free trade and the free movement of people, is a noble one.
Midterm Madness: Political Ads from Michigan to Texas (Half the Answer #98, with Jonathan M. Katz)
Floating in a hideous soup of extremism, slander, bad art, and dirty dealings.
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Editor’s Notes: Liberals Need to Know the Reading to Do
Let’s put some thought toward making a better canon of central works in liberalism.
Editor's Notes: Never Underestimate the Human Capacity for Earnest Cruelty
Americans ought to be more familiar with the sorts of atrocities committed both by regimes and by rioting publics.
The Moral Case for Dynamism (Neon Liberalism #86, with Sonja Trauss)
Finding the space between articulating a radical liberal idealism and meeting people where they are.
Objections Considered: Objection I.—Such Cruelties Are Incredible
To deny that cruelty is the spontaneous and uniform product of arbitrary power is to set at nought the combined experience of the human race.
The Minnesota Star Tribune Publishes an Article on The Reconstruction Papers
David M. Perry writes about looking ahead to what 2029 trifecta could accomplish.
Fascists Really Believe It
Millions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory.
Podcast
The Moral Case for Dynamism (Neon Liberalism #86, with Sonja Trauss)
Finding the space between articulating a radical liberal idealism and meeting people where they are.
Was Cultural Marxism Responsible for the Beatles? (Half the Answer #97, with A. J. A. Woods)
Why does the right keep talking about a handful of critical theorists from the 1960s?
Red in Tooth and Claw (Neon Liberalism #85)
The pressure of international competition has driven both mindless militarism and genuine modernization.