It's Not the One Percent. It's Your Neighbors.

The rentier economy that has a stranglehold on American quality of life includes a lot more than one percent of the population.

Liberalism's Persistent Troubles: James E. Cronin's "Fragile Victory"

The work of preserving liberalism is perpetual.

Closed Borders Are the Line in the Sand

The way forward is clear.

In Defense of “Yard-Sign Libertarianism”

"No Human is Illegal" is an ideal we can appeal to, however imperfectly it is put into practice.

Liberalism on Its Own Terms: Alexandre Lefebvre's "Liberalism As a Way of Life"

Lefebvre articulates a clear and accessible vision for a new type of society.

Liberals Must Get Comfortable Running Counter to the Media

Vocal pushback to harmful stories about DEI or trans healthcare won’t crumple the media or rob it of its ability to stand up against oppression.

We Can Organize

The methods of the Civil Rights Movement are still available to us today.

To My Fellow Libertarians: It's Time to Embrace the Harris-Walz Ticket

Libertarians, long used to holding their noses to pick the lesser evil or abstaining entirely, now have plenty of reasons for enthusiasm.

Neutralizing MAGA: Applying Frederick Douglass's Fugitive Philosophy

Governments must be a terror to evildoers if they would be praised to those who do well. It will not do for a government with the knife of treason at its throat, to bear the sword in vain. [Lecture on Haiti, 1893] Frederick Douglass lived the life of a fugitive,

In Praise of Wokeness

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

Finding Freedom in the Gender Phantasmagoria

The parts where Butler does what they do best—academic analysis of gender and culture—are excellent, but they sit uneasily alongside an awkward and insistent self-defense.

Against the Slave Power: the Fugitive Liberalism of Frederick Douglass

Douglass elaborated a political theory from his experiences as a slave, where institutions were directed against people like him. He had to become attuned to the differential character of law as it applied to slaves and other outlaws.