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A community of mere liberals. Discussing, defending, and applying the many varieties of liberalism. patreon.com/LiberalCurrents
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"Bureaucracy can be a potent tool for in-grouping and out-grouping, all the more effective because of the facelessness with which it tends to operate." www.liberalcurrents.com/for-non-bina...

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"What’s the difference to the country, and to the world, of four more years of a Democratic presidency as opposed to an unknown number of years subjected to Donald Trump?" www.liberalcurrents.com/elections-ar...

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“We are also witnessing state-level assaults on LGBTQ Americans the likes of which we haven’t seen since the wave of same-sex marriage bans in the 2000s.” www.liberalcurrents.com/for-non-bina...

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"Her preference for urban streets over manufactured parks was a key part of her philosophy." www.liberalcurrents.com/yes-to-a-liv...

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Casting a single vote for the better major candidate has a large positive net expected value for society, and you can very often tell who's a better candidate (especially this year!). Voting is humble, unselfish, and rational—a little chore that you should do. www.liberalcurrents.com/elections-ar...

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"As anyone who has studied authoritarian regimes and democratic backsliding knows, there is never a single inflection point where democracy dies and the flame of freedom is extinguished, never to burn again." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-case-aga...

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"Green industry? Absolutely! Good union jobs? For sure! Strategic competition with China? That too! Consumer stimulus? Why not! Fine-tuning specific sectors of the economy? Sounds good!" www.liberalcurrents.com/four-questio...

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"At first glance, it seems like the Supreme Court has reinforced one leg of the ‘executive throne’ while whittling away at another. In reality, their goals are far more straightforward." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-courts-a...

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“In politics sometimes you’re in government, sometimes you’re in the opposition, and sometimes you’re a dissident. As of this writing, some combination of the latter two are looking more probable than not for the next 4 years in America.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-case-aga...

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“They have spent the past decades transferring power away from Congress, away from the rational bureaucracy, and to the lobbyists, the courts, and the personalist presidency.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-courts-a...

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"The White House has largely failed to treat Trump as an extraordinary threat to the American political order. No jaw dropping extralegal measures have actually been taken, no glass has been broken in case of emergency." www.liberalcurrents.com/who-exactly/

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"A court reform movement whose goal is a restoration of a legitimate judiciary will likely have an easier time appealing to moderate skeptics than one seeking to burn judicial review to the ground and salt the earth." www.liberalcurrents.com/restoring-ou...

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"One doesn’t have a right to a job per se, but one has a right not to be excluded from a job—for which one is qualified—on irrelevant or arbitrary grounds, especially in a world where such exclusion might otherwise be widespread and systematic." www.liberalcurrents.com/unfriendly-s...

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"Libertarians view the state as a more powerful and more important source of oppression than other oppressors, institutional or private. But for Douglass, the institution of slavery itself was far more sinister." www.liberalcurrents.com/misappropria...

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Hey its me! I'm in @liberalcurrents.com talking about why judicial review is essential to democracy and that's WHY we need to pack the Court

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"He thinks that the further and more complicated social affairs get, the less reliable our moral signals become, and the more susceptible organizational actions become to corruption and vice." www.liberalcurrents.com/adam-smith-l...

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“Douglass is another example of a genuinely heroic figure—like Martin Luther King Jr—who has been hijacked by the political right that wants to claim great figures without grappling with what made them great in the first place.” www.liberalcurrents.com/misappropria...

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"With Juneteenth upon us, we can put good money on encountering articles by libertarians and conservatives reminding us of Frederick Douglass, the legendary escaped slave, abolitionist, and statesman of the 19th century." www.liberalcurrents.com/misappropria...

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“Douglass is another example of a genuinely heroic figure—like Martin Luther King Jr—who has been hijacked by the political right that wants to claim great figures without grappling with what made them great in the first place.” www.liberalcurrents.com/misappropria...

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“Nearly 35 years have passed since Mearsheimer’s 1990 article, and there has been no weakening of peaceful relations between democratic European nations. Quite the opposite.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-democrat...

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"The good society...for Smith is indeed the society of natural liberty, a free competition, but it is also a society where the capitalist class does not have an influence on government policy, where the rate of interest is low and the wage is high." www.liberalcurrents.com/adam-smith-l...

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"Despite their anger at figures like Eisenhower and Bush and their disappointment in Reagan, conservative antiliberals continued to flock to the GOP, and so they also continued to build their capacity to get the sort of candidate they really wanted." www.liberalcurrents.com/a-poisonous-...

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"Companies run and owned by Erik Prince and other far-right extremists, like Elon Musk, will continue to receive lucrative contracts from the federal government while they plot to overthrow it." www.liberalcurrents.com/who-exactly/

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"There is a debate about what to make of Smith and some of our modern conceptions of political outlook and ideology. And there's certainly been a big move to emphasize Smith as kind of a left-oriented thinker." www.liberalcurrents.com/adam-smith-l...

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"The written word matters. Here at Liberal Currents, we aim to publish works that help to cultivate the community of liberal fellow travelers, as well as to put specific policies into discussion within that community." www.liberalcurrents.com/contributing...

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"It took more than two years after he left the White House for him to be indicted for the first time... That’s more than two years after Trump marshaled an assault on the Capitol building that almost ended in the deaths of members of Congress." www.liberalcurrents.com/who-exactly/

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