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
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
Trent and Caitlin talk with journalist Walker Bragman about the various crises in public health and climate change, the people who helped bring us here, and the dark money that funded it. They discuss the ways disinformation is packaged and spread to discourage the public from being able to access| Liberal Currents
"The War on Science," ed. Lawrence Krauss, documents an imaginary war on science from the left in order to justify an entirely real war on science from the right.| Liberal Currents
Are you sad? Lonely? Can't get a girlfriend? The reactionary right promises a total philosophy of life—not just a politics, but a comprehensive way of living (and explaining why it's all the libs' fault). Can liberalism speak to the same anxieties? Host Samantha| Liberal Currents
The group chat leak reveals what over a decade of incel messaging and Bronze Age Pervert have done to Young Republicans.| Liberal Currents
The Trump administration is seeking to rewind the clock on an entire century of legal—and moral—progress.| Liberal Currents
Caitlin and Trent catch up with historian and former journalist John Ghazvinian to discuss the state of Iran, its past, present and future, how that has historically intersected with the United States dating back nearly 300 years, why trust is so important in international relations, the JCPOA, the Trump era,| Liberal Currents
How mystics and transhumanists force the dead to speak on behalf of their politics.| Liberal Currents
The precedents for the violence and overt use of state power we are now experiencing can be found in the 1910s and 1920s rather than the 1930s and 1940s.| Liberal Currents
Caitlin and Trent speak with Jared Holt and Michael Edison Hayden about the infamous right-wing "busybody journalist" Andy Ngo, his work demonizing Muslim immigrants in grad school, and his transition to online political influencer and professional victim with "The Post Millennial" as its editor-at-large. Half the| Liberal Currents
As the Trump administration seeks to erase the history of Black achievements, we must ensure that figures like Hazel Scott are not forgotten.| Liberal Currents
Trent and Caitlin are joined by Layla al-Sheikh to discuss that Israel deal and the history of past proposals and solutions. Half the Answer can be heard on Spotify, on Apple, on YouTube, on Amazon, and elsewhere via its RSS feed. Resources: Current updates https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/| Liberal Currents
If you remember anything from high school civics, it's the phrases "separation of powers" and "checks and balances." That separation and those checks are under the greatest attack we've seen in our lifetimes. But why does that matter? How does it affect| Liberal Currents
Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.| Liberal Currents
Christopher Mathias, author of "To Catch a Fascist," speaks to Caitlin and Trent about the events of 2020, clashes between violent fascist clubs and "community defense" groups. They discuss misconceptions about what "antifa" is and what kinds of activities they are engaged in, the| Liberal Currents
Our language has to meet the moment, and we have to be relentless about dispelling the fiction MAGA is selling.| Liberal Currents
Charlie Kirk, the shutdown, mass deportation and militarization, and more.| Liberal Currents
As the right begins to revise their view of Hitler, we must revive the example Churchill set in that era.| Liberal Currents
The entanglement of fascist politics and Christian imagery is not new, and it is dangerously powerful.| 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
Information is power, and information removed is power weakened.| Liberal Currents
They are aiming to build the future they want by rewriting history.| 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
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
