Did Liberals Give Us Mass Incarceration?
The United States managed its violence on the cheap — through police and prisons instead of social welfare.
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Where Liberals Go to Die
The centrist nadir in a nutshell: “Am I really so out of touch? No. It’s the voters who are wrong.”
Trudeau’s Liberals Will Require Pressure to Make Good on Their Anti-Scab Bill
Canada’s Liberals are promising to introduce anti-scab legislation next year as part of an olive branch to the New Democratic Party. Unions and the Left will need to hold the Liberals’ feet to the fire to ensure that the legislation has teeth.
Why Liberals Separate Race from Class
The tendency to divorce racial disparities from economic inequality has a long liberal lineage.
Liberals Are Giving Up on America
In their despair at Donald Trump’s victory, liberal pundits are concluding that the masses, especially the working class, are irredeemably terrible. That’s apolitical nonsense.
Why Liberals Should Unite With Socialists, Not the Right
Conservatives are sounding the alarm bell about a Marxist takeover, with at least one philosopher urging liberals to join forces with the Right to destroy the socialist bogeyman. But the values of liberalism have much more in common with socialism than the Right — and liberals sincerely committed to advancing freedom and equality should unite with leftists.
Liberals and Racism
Misreading the tea leaves.
Liberals Are Increasingly Embarking on Dangerous Flights from Reality
Democrats like to think of themselves as “reality-based” people who “follow the science.” But lately, they have been engaged in irrational fearmongering over Russia and China that is reminiscent of their disastrous Cold War–era paranoia about the Soviets.
Liberals’ Heated Fascism Rhetoric Sidesteps Self-Reflection
In response to the threat of a second Donald Trump presidency, Democrats are dusting off apocalyptic rhetoric of looming fascism and total democratic collapse. It's a self-soothing deflection of responsibility more than anything else.
J. Edgar Hoover Tried to Destroy the Left — and Liberals Enabled Him
J. Edgar Hoover is notorious for his decades-long campaign to stamp out the Left by surveilling and even killing radicals like Fred Hampton. What is less well known is that liberals played an important role in enabling Hoover’s antidemocratic crusade.
The Good Old Liberals
Fifty years after its release, the Moynihan Report is still being used to attack the black poor.
Liberals and Diversity
Liberal commentators believe that you can have diversity or economic justice, but you can’t have both. They're wrong.
What Liberals Don’t Get About the Liberal Order’s Crisis
Liberals often explain today’s disorder as the work of authoritarians or populist agitators. What they miss is that the postwar consensus depended on conservatives, whose defection has left it in crisis.
Sweden’s New Government Shows How Liberals Sold Out to the Far Right
Four years ago, Ulf Kristersson promised a Holocaust survivor he’d never cooperate with the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats. Now he’s prime minister of a government dependent on their support — an unholy alliance of liberals and the far right.
Conservatives Are Banning Books in America, Not Liberals
For all we hear from conservatives about liberals’ censoriousness, data newly released by the American Library Association is a reminder that the overwhelming majority of book-banning campaigns come from the Right.
Postliberals Don’t Understand What’s Wrong With America
Frustrated with the state of America, some on the Right have come to embrace postliberalism, an ideology that seeks to invigorate conservative politics by rejecting equality.
The First Neoliberals
How free-market disciples and union busters became the prophets of American liberalism.