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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Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 18 April 2023

Discussing the contrast between the liberalism of mutual toleration, and the liberalism of taming state power. Based on the invited comments delivered on March 10, 2023, celebrating the Lee Kong …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 18 April 2023 English

Discussing the contrast between the liberalism of mutual toleration, and the liberalism of taming state power. Based on the invited comments delivered on March 10, 2023, celebrating the Lee Kong …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 10 April 2023

Housing is the overlooked, but arguably most important, variable in determining inequality.


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 23 March 2023 English

Illiberals want the hierarchy of traditional society with the prosperity of modernity, but the dynamism and instability required to foster that prosperity are at odds with the goal of establishing …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 22 March 2023 English

Georgism presented an alternative for many liberals who were active participants in the ‘progressive movement’ but were not themselves ideologically aligned with the Progressives. George’s view allowed for a general …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 2 March 2023

Can Israel's regime and influence be criticized without falling into antisemitic tropes?


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 1 March 2023

A persistent argument on the left and right is that peasants had better lives than workers under capitalism. The evidence indicates the opposite.


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 27 February 2023 English

Democrats, whether politicians or pundits, constantly urge their partisans to vote as the solution to just about every possible problem. Obama famously told a crowd not to boo Donald Trump, …


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 8 February 2023 English

Gender affirming care is framed as an issue exclusive to trans people: niche, experimental, untested, demanding. This is exactly backwards: gender affirming care is universal, pervasive, well-studied, and simple.


Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 1 February 2023

Heidegger's contribution to the philosophy of the subject had real value but the rest of his philosophy was deeply linked to the reactionary politics which led him to join with …