Daniel B. Klein - Liberal Currents

America’s Moral Rot in the Age of Trumpism and How to Reverse It

Accountability and court reform must be zealously pursued once Trump is out of power.

A. D. Blair Sep 15, 2026

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Adam Gurri Sep 14, 2026

We Need a New Federal Writers Project

Drawing on and improving the model pioneered during the New Deal.

Zeb Larson Sep 14, 2026

Daniel Klein is professor of economics and JIN Chair at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he leads a program in Adam Smith, and associate fellow at the Ratio Institute, Stockholm.

2 articles

Adam Smith: Left, Right, Other, or All of the Above?

On the political outlook and ideology of the great Scottish philosopher.

Daniel B. Klein, Branko Milanovic Jun 7, 2024

The Warm Liberalism of Erik Gustaf Geijer

* The new volume Freedom in Sweden: Selected Works of Erik Gustaf Geijer, ed. Björn Hasselgren, trans. P. C. Hogg (Timbro,

Björn Hasselgren, Daniel B. Klein Dec 6, 2017