The Message Is Getting Out There. We Need Your Help to Make a New Reconstruction Possible
The Reconstruction Papers was referenced in Vox this week.
Public Execution
Acts of violence are a sacrament in the fascist civic religion. The new fascist man must be posted into being.
China According to China
The Pax Sinica to which Xi Jinping aspires will be no imperialism-free paradise, but a world made safe for autocracy and domestic terror.
Checks and Balances Will Not Save Us
A Democratically controlled Congress will have some tools to deploy, but not as many as some may hope.
A Hard Look at Libertarianism
Quinn Slobodian's 2025 book provides the starting point of a more thorough post-mortem.
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The Message Is Getting Out There. We Need Your Help to Make a New Reconstruction Possible
The Reconstruction Papers was referenced in Vox this week.
An All-Out Assault on Citizenship
Voter rolls, non-public execution, white nationalist violence, and TERF Island, sinking lower.
Sexual Violence on Campus and the Universities That Enable It (Half the Answer #109, with Nicole Bedera)
Institutions of higher education regularly prevent survivors from accessing justice.
Liberal Currents Live: Libertarianism Captured by Racism
Was it inevitable that bigotry would become so dominant within libertarianism, or could it all have gone differently?
Openly Selling Out America’s Interests
Russia, Starlink, Greenland, Iran, Ilhan Omar, and Katie Zacharia.
Donald Trump Posted Videos of Animals Mauling People
Truth Social, pardons for sale, Ken Corruption, and retaliation.
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Sexual Violence on Campus and the Universities That Enable It (Half the Answer #109, with Nicole Bedera)
Institutions of higher education regularly prevent survivors from accessing justice.
Liberal Currents Live: Libertarianism Captured by Racism
Was it inevitable that bigotry would become so dominant within libertarianism, or could it all have gone differently?
Graft the Likes of Which the World Has Never Seen Before (Half the Answer #108, with Zach Everson)
Donald Trump made more than two billion dollars in the first year of his second term.
We Squandered It! Why the World Is on Fire (Neon Liberalism #94, with Ben Wittes)
How we went from the triumph of the fall of the Berlin Wall to our current world.