Samantha Hancox-Li

In Praise of Wokeness

Don't blame woke ideas, which have merit, for the self-defeating style of politics that is pervasive online.

An American Reconstruction

The revolution will take place within the modes and orders of American law even as it distorts and transforms that law.

Four Questions for the New Industrial Policy

If we want to win the policy battles that are coming, we need to start thinking more clearly about the specifics.

The Bloody River

Consolidated liberal democracy is the only path to enduring peace.

How Movements Win

On the importance of a strong inside strategy.

Why Movements Fail

Horizontalism and its discontents

In Defense of Economic Liberty

Taking an important idea back from the right

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.

The Political Economy of Patriarchy

There’s a new program of anti–trans and increasingly anti-queer simpliciter politics sweeping across America. After they lost on gay marriage in courts of public opinion and Supreme, Republicans went looking for a new bogeyman. They found it in trans people. Their new hate campaign is focused on the

Lessons for a New Cold War

I am a child of the 90s. America had emerged from the long twilight struggle of the Cold War victorious, materially and ideologically: liberal capitalism was, it was said, the end of history. As such it was hoped that free trade and free exchange would slowly see the People’s

The Illiberal's Dilemma

In January of this year, media personality Matt Walsh tweeted “Singapore is able to have nice things in part because they execute drug dealers by hanging and arrest even petty vandals and thieves and beat them with a cane until they bleed. We don’t have nice things because we

The Actual Ubiquity of Gender Affirming Care

Our children are in danger and we need to protect them. There is a crisis in America, it’s bad and it’s spreading. You may have heard of it if you pay attention to the New York Times, the Atlantic magazine, or neo-fascist Matt Walsh. No, it’s not