Liberal Currents

Liberal Currents

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons

Liberal Currents offers discussion, elucidation, and defense of liberal principles and institutions. These principles—however qualified—are freedom, individualism, universalism, and pluralism, grounded in a respect for the dignity of ordinary people living ordinary lives. These principles are embedded and protected within liberal institutions: the rule of law, due process, democratic politics, private property, markets, and institutions of free inquiry and expression.

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An Exercise in Political Imagination: the Day Stephen Bright and Bryan Stevenson Debated William F. Buckley

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 31 October 2024 English

Bright and Stevenson defended the abolition of capital punishment at a moment when political support for that movement reached its nadir.

Liberalism and the Politics of Joy

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 30 October 2024 English

A natural companion to the fight against reactionary Christian nationalism.

The Plutocrat-Populist Axis

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 29 October 2024 English

Why is this alliance such a robust and enduring power bloc?

Against Political Nihilism

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 28 October 2024 English

Reject the plea for vibes over action.

Liberals Must Wage War on Rent-Seeking

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 25 October 2024 English

Rent-seeking classes form a core backbone of the Republican Party.

Kevin Vallier’s Politics of Peace Against Theocracy in “All the Kingdoms of the World”

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 October 2024 English

Vallier's critique of integralism can be generalized to apply to a variety of illiberalisms.

The Democratic Party and Its Rightward Shift on the Border

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 23 October 2024 English

How did we get here from "no human is illegal"?

American Identities, in Theory and Practice

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 17 October 2024 English

Who fractured humanity?

Donald Trump, in His Own Words and Deeds

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 15 October 2024 English

We cannot let people grow numb to the things Trump says and does.

A Fundamentally Anti-Democratic Tradition: Zack Beauchamp's "The Reactionary Spirit"

Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 14 October 2024 English

Where conservatives may seek to conserve their democratic systems, reactionaries by their nature seek to weaken or abolish them.