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.

Mass Deportation: If You Do It

What you'll do.

He Will Try

Only one candidate is guaranteed to try to undermine our democracy and our way of life.

C. B. Macpherson on Retrieving Liberal Radicalism

The 20th century political theorist has much to offer for the contemporary left liberal.

A Resilient Spirit Yearning for Justice: The Arab World Today

Powerlessness in the Arab World, thirteen years after the Arab Spring.

An American Reconstruction

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

For Non-Binary Arkansans, No ID, No Entry Into Public Life

The governor of Arkansas has intentionally demeaned minority communities in a state where their position is already precarious.

Elections Are Purely Practical

Don’t be vain about your vote.