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 · 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 …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 25 January 2023 English
At this moment of discontent with liberalism and growing flirtation with populism and post-liberalism, it is worth looking back at republicanism in the hope its teachings can help reinvigorate liberalism.
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 24 January 2023 English
The old ways of being a man are dying, and while there’s unfortunately no reason to think these will be the last of many violent extinction bursts, Fierro’s heroic response …
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 23 January 2023
A guide to parliamentary governments for those more familiar with presidential systems.
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 12 December 2022
As we pare away the extraneous elements to get to the core of degrowth, we find an illiberal philosophy fundamentally at odds with human freedom and human welfare.
Individual Contributors to Policy Commons · 8 December 2022
No practical case for dictatorship exists except for in the delusions of liberal democracy's critics.