Work Against the Poor

On Elizabeth Anderson's Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back

The Cosmic Tragedy of Modernity and the Virtues of Liberalism

Safeguarding personal and social autonomy from the ever changing conditions of modernity

Recalling the Irish Diaspora

What if the population of Ireland today was seventy million?

It's Time to Sort the University

Sortition can make the university system more egalitarian.

Samuel Moyn on the Abandonment of Revolutionary Liberalism

Samuel Moyn argues that Cold War liberals abandoned liberalism's revolutionary promise.

Western Liberals Need to Extend the Same Humanity to Gaza as They Did to Ukraine

Western liberals have not extended the same solidarity to the Palestinian people that they did to the Ukrainians.

A Tragic Mistake Based on a Faulty Premise

Joe Biden started his political career blasé about the Vietnam War. He is ending it blasé about Palestinian genocide. In 1972, while campaigning for his first term in the senate, Joe Biden couldn’t muster up the moral outrage needed to condemn the Vietnam War. Despite the twenty-fold increase in

The Liberal Centrist Trap

Identity politics is vital for liberalism precisely because oppression is never neutral, color-blind, or universal.

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.

Statement on the Events in Israel and Gaza

To be a liberal is to be for the party of humanity: For human rights and human dignity for all persons regardless of nation, color, or creed. Last Saturday, Hamas perpetrated a horrific attack on civilians, in violation of these universal rights. Hamas should immediately free its hostages without condition.

Nietzsche's Critique of Liberalism

Liberal institutions straightway cease from being liberal, the moment they are soundly established: once this is attained no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions! One knows, of course, what they bring about: they undermine the Will to Power, they are the levelling of mountain

Taking Inclusion Seriously: Kevin Elliott's Democracy for Busy People

“How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?” This question, asked by English writer Samuel Johnson in 1775, still touches a nerve today. Americans on the one hand carry the pride of one of the oldest sets of representative institutions in the