Liberal Currents

A community of mere liberals. Discussing, defending, and applying the many varieties of liberalism.

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2024-08-26 18:15:55

"You can keep the purity of your soul. I want to get shit done." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/in-praise-of-wokeness/

2024-08-14 14:04:33

"Newspapers and cable networks are driven by their own institutional logics. They can to some extent be trained to follow more liberal courses, but only if #liberals themselves take on the challenge of undoing decades of #conservatives attempting the same." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/liberals-must-get-comfortable-running-counter-to-the-media/

2024-08-07 12:55:59

"How is it that today we see not conservatives but leftists arguing that '#woke' has run its course and must be discarded?" https://www.liberalcurrents.com/in-praise-of-wokeness/

2024-08-02 19:52:37

"The principles of liberal #democracy are on life support in many localities, and #trans rights is at the center of that decline." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/for-non-binary-arkansans-no-id-no-entry-into-public-life/

2024-07-12 08:56:12

"When the median voter is baffled that they voted for #Biden but #abortion got banned anyways, they are right to be puzzled." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/an-american-reconstruction/

2024-07-08 19:32:31

"A greater supply of #housing does not necessarily lead to sprawl. By concentrating housing in the city, #nature is preserved." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/yes-to-a-living-city-applying-jacobs-principles-to-new-yorks-rezoning/

2024-07-03 16:13:28

"One doesn’t have a right to a job per se, but one has a right not to be excluded from a job—for which one is qualified—on irrelevant or arbitrary grounds, especially in a world where such exclusion might otherwise be widespread and systematic." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/unfriendly-skies/

2024-07-02 22:29:48

"Libertarians view the state as a more powerful and more important source of #oppression than other oppressors, institutional or private. But for Douglass, the institution of #slavery itself was far more sinister." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/misappropriating-douglass/

2024-06-19 10:00:09

"With #Juneteenth upon us, we can put good money on encountering articles by libertarians and conservatives reminding us of Frederick Douglass, the legendary escaped slave, abolitionist, and statesman of the 19th century." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/misappropriating-douglass/

2024-05-31 15:50:15

"It is easy to draw a line between action such as mass protest and mere words. But all outside strategies such as #protests are acts of rhetoric." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/contributing-to-the-liberal-project-as-a-writer-a-primer/

2024-05-22 16:35:10

"However flavored, originalism has never escaped the accusation it crudely conceals being a Trojan horse for #conservative jurisprudence by preaching faux pieties about judicial impartiality." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/reintroducing-ronald-dworkin/

2024-04-28 14:34:15

"The increasing deification of #Trump within certain #Christian circles—at least, self-professed 'Christian' circles...is a trend that ought to be viewed as utterly catastrophic to secular and believing individuals alike." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-face-of-christian-authoritarianism-giving-to-trump-what-is-trumps/

2024-04-26 14:39:31

"Liberalism had 'assumed that...communal identity would fall away in favour of liberty, reason and autonomy.' Instead, people had been caught up in appeals to this need by #fascism and #communism, and #liberalism had no answer." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/an-arrow-against-all-illiberals/

2024-04-04 22:40:40

"Mayor Eric Adams has proposed a group of policies collectively known as the City of Yes. It is a bold plan to shed decades of restrictions on #housing stock and provide more people with affordable housing." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/a-city-of-liberalism-means-becoming-a-city-of-yes/

2024-03-25 16:23:53

"As a historian of the seventeenth century, what I found exceptionally interesting was not the history #Putin described, but the #history he did not describe." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-history-putin-would-rather-forget/

2024-03-20 13:28:29

"#Putin justified his war in #Ukraine by appealing to #history as he understands it... I believe he chose not to describe the early-modern period in Central Europe precisely because it is an obsession for him." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-history-putin-would-rather-forget/

2024-03-16 16:52:30

"It is no answer to this to say that if all men would obey the laws of #God, lead virtuous lives, do by others as they would be done unto, human #government would be unnecessary." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/is-civil-government-right-ii/

2024-03-08 19:54:10

"Bentham is often regarded as the great champion of #reform, #reason, and #equality in analytical political thought... And yet Anderson shows how Bentham’s outlook was nonetheless profoundly shaped by his own thinly disavowed prejudices." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/working-against-the-poor/

2024-02-22 19:25:21

"An entire ecosystem of academics and journalists thrives on writing and citing books and conducting seminar circuits asserting that the #woke believe identity groups are essentialist and prior to the individual." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/frankly-illiberal-fukuyama/

2024-02-19 17:58:59

"Works such as 'Birth of a Nation' and 'Gone with the Wind' sanitized the Confederacy and the violence of stripping millions of their rights, and the Northern public largely let it happen or even enthusiastically adopted the new creed of 'national reconciliation.'" https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-redeemers/

2024-01-31 14:03:32

"Good intentions don’t always lead to good outcomes. This is a problem with which libertarians, in particular, are familiar." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/deradicalizing-the-center/

2024-01-24 14:27:54

"This town is alarmingly homogeneous, not just in its racial composition but in its ideological bent. ... Windsor has effectively won a silent race war, not through overt conflict but through the systematic exclusion of diversity." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-build-a-wall-around-windsor-colorado/

2023-09-22 16:04:40

"Skeptics of #democracy often rest their arguments on the apathy of the masses. Some go so far as to defend that apathy as a positive good. Elliott argues that political apathy is neither inevitable, nor normatively defensible." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/taking-inclusion-seriously-kevin-elliotts-democracy-for-busy-people/

2023-08-31 21:03:54

"Bad ideas can be engaged without giving them respectability or a platform. This takes more care and thoughtfulness than we employ when we just present those arguments as interesting and assume the marketplace for ideas will reveal the truth." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/deradicalizing-the-center/

2023-08-31 03:02:00

"Commitment to openness to all ideas and all discussion flatters a common belief among many centrists and libertarians that they are in an important way above the fray of ordinary, vulgar #politics." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/deradicalizing-the-center/

2023-08-29 13:49:12

"Libertarian commentator Robby Soave wrote, 'Ostracizing Derek wouldn’t have made him any less racist: on the contrary, it would have driven him further into the arms of the white nationalist movement.' But that’s wrong." www.liberalcurrents.com/deradicalizi...

2023-08-15 13:36:23

"Rarely is a book so comparatively heavy on theory so grounded in nitty-gritty recommendations. ... Chandler makes Rawls’s vision of a 'realistic utopia' seem very realistic indeed." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-details-of-a-rawlsian-society-daniel-chandlers-free-and-equal/

2023-07-28 15:43:44

"In order to escape the danger of persecution once their identity is public, the atheist has to put themselves in danger first. Telling the #immigration authorities you could not be public about your identity...will fall on deaf ears." #asylum https://www.liberalcurrents.com/a-century-of-backsliding-on-immigration/

2023-07-13 17:18:33

"Why are these nominal feminists so eager to sign up with a hate campaign organized by blatantly misogynist conservatives whose other policy goals include banning #abortion, birth control, and no-fault #divorce?" https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-political-economy-of-patriarchy/

2023-04-10 13:42:31

"Housing is the core component of middle and even upper middle class wealth, so the distribution of its ownership has massive implications for inequality. Similarly, higher rents represent a transfer from (poor) renters to (rich) landlords." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/house-hoarders/