A Popular Front of Memory
As the right begins to revise their view of Hitler, we must revive the example Churchill set in that era.| Liberal Currents
Samantha and Lucian Staiano-Daniels, author of "The War People," discuss the connection between liberalism and toleration and the dark history of religious civil war. How did the European Wars of Religion give birth to our concept of toleration? And is this history enough reason today to embrace toleration?| Liberal Currents
We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.| Liberal Currents
Trent and Caitlin speak with Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider about their recent book The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual. They discuss the faulty beliefs and logics that lead us to think about education as a tool for achievement and competition rather than a service| Liberal Currents
Trump and Hegseth are cultivating a military that sees liberals and minorities as enemies to be fought and is willing to follow orders to do so.| Liberal Currents
Trent and Caitlin talk with political science professor Matt McManus about far-right thinkers and their journey through the past two decades. He regales the HTA audience with nuggets of wisdom from Charlie Kirk's books and other pieces of right-wing political theory he has reviewed. Half the Answer can| Liberal Currents
As the right begins to revise their view of Hitler, we must revive the example Churchill set in that era.| Liberal Currents
Samantha and fellow Liberal Currents editor Jason Briggeman discuss the economics of liberal democracy, starting from the basic question "why are all the rich countries liberal democracies?" Did liberal democracy cause the Industrial Revolution? What is the role of imperialism in the modern economy? And perhaps most importantly: what does| Liberal Currents
Trent and Caitlin talk with politics blogger and podcaster Ed Burmila about the centrist arm of the Democratic Party and its zombie-like shuffle through our dark era of authoritarian overreach. We ask what exactly went wrong over the last half-century that led our ostensible protectors to be so ill-equipped for| Liberal Currents
The entanglement of fascist politics and Christian imagery is not new, and it is dangerously powerful.| Liberal Currents
Join host Samantha Hancox-Li for a discussion of the difference between liberalism as an assumed default and liberalism as an active project. Even as the progressive base—and Americans generally—grow increasingly outraged at Trump II's attacks on our Constitution, elite liberals in media and journalism wring their hands and| Liberal Currents
As MAGA flexes the power of the state to attack dissent, protest, and now mere comedy, it's time for the left to embrace the mantle of free speech.| Liberal Currents
…We may reject the contention that the ordering of institutions is always defective because the distribution of natural talents and the contingencies of social circumstance are unjust, and this injustice must inevitably carry over to human arrangements. Occasionally this reflection is offered as an excuse for ignoring injustice, as if| Liberal Currents
Henry Clay understood what was wrong with the unitary executive theory back in the 1830s.| Liberal Currents
Trent and Caitlin check in with independent journalist Marisa Kabas about media and public figures’ reactions to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, their impulse to valorize and whitewash his legacy, and the mass harassment and firing campaigns against anyone who is insufficient in their praise of him. Half the| Liberal Currents
Information is power, and information removed is power weakened.| Liberal Currents
How calling Trump the “N-word” sparked the free speech RICO.| Liberal Currents
They are aiming to build the future they want by rewriting history.| Liberal Currents
Join Samantha and guest Alan Elrod, president and CEO of the Pulaski Institution, as they talk about how the spectacle of deliberate cruelty—troops on the streets, deportations of firefighters, the public performance of vileness—is not an accident or a distraction, but is a core part of the Trumpian| Liberal Currents
Liberal Currents publishes writers of diverse perspectives who share an unflinching commitment to freedom, pluralism, and democracy, in opposition to authoritarianism at home and around the world.| Liberal Currents
Media is a crucial tool for building solidarity among opposition to authoritarian rule.| Liberal Currents
It is the tech oligarchs, not young radicals, who have turned against the system that made them.| Liberal Currents
Andrew Breitbart argued long ago that "politics is downstream of culture." Is that true? Is there such a thing as liberal culture? Has Trump II revealed its apparent dominance to be hollow? Or is the death of liberalism overwrought? Join Samantha and guest Alex Lefebvre, author of Liberalism As a| Liberal Currents
Adoptees are proof of the cruelty and carelessness at the heart of Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship.| Liberal Currents
The Court has suddenly decided to place limitations on injunctions when they were preventing a brazenly unconstitutional executive order.| Liberal Currents
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.| Liberal Currents
It’s not an omen or threat or hint of fascism—it’s the thing itself.| Liberal Currents
A roadmap for retaking power and laying the foundations for American Reconstruction.| Liberal Currents
The Ketamine Koup is fundamentally about unilateral control of the federal government's money.| Liberal Currents
A corrupt bargain has been struck between the oligarchs who own our public squares and the autocrats who aspire to own our country.| Liberal Currents
If the Court and federal workers fail to stop Elon Musk, we are heading for authoritarianism.| Liberal Currents
The solipsism of social media rests on the false promise of everything being yours: your feed, your network, your friends, customisable and uniquely, ineffably you.| Liberal Currents
When conservatives want to burn down the system.| Liberal Currents
Conservatives recently had an apoplectic fit over Bud Light’s product placement making some sort of partnership with transgender TikTok personality Dylan Mulvaney. There have also been conservative freakouts at Mulvaney partnering with Nike, a man screaming obscenities over a Lego pride set, and around one stupidly outraged viral tweet| Liberal Currents
