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Liberal Currents

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Liberal Currents

@LiberalCurrents

A community of mere liberals. Discussing, defending, and applying the many varieties of liberalism. patreon.com/LiberalCurrents

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Nov 11, 2024
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Sep 30, 2024
“It's not just the megarich, the billionaires with yachts for their yachts. It's "don't call me a millionaire" millionaire homeowners, it's doctors, it's car dealers, it's cosmetologists.”
It's Not the One Percent. It's Your Neighbors.
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May 3, 2023
Rest in Peace, Eden Night
Rest in Peace, Eden Knight
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Sep 12, 2021
"In the mainstream, a culture of hyper-sensitivity reigned, a perception that artists and companies were safer, not only avoiding stances that challenged the militaristic consensus, but avoiding any reference to the subject at all."
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Conservative Cancel Culture After 9/11
“Probably the only thing that genuinely was cancelled in the last 20 years was … The Dixie Chicks,” the longtime progressive blogger Atrios tweeted on June 20. As his use of “genuinely” suggests,...
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Jan 4, 2022
"In many circumstances, genuinely holding to liberal principles will require confronting capital. In those circumstances we must ask where one’s loyalties really lie: with liberalism or with capital."
Does Liberalism Mean Supporting Capitalism?
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Jun 1, 2022
To Reject Bigotry, Libertarians Should Become Neoliberals
To Reject Bigotry, Libertarians Should Become Neoliberals
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Oct 15, 2024
“In what follows I will try to take the smallest number of quotes I can to convey how shockingly extreme Trump’s statements are. He regularly says things that would have ended the political career of any figure in my lifetime before 2015.”
Donald Trump, in His Own Words and Deeds
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Nov 9, 2021
Was Peter Boghossian Silenced?
Was Peter Boghossian Silenced?
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Jul 21, 2023
A Century of Backsliding on Immigration
A Century of Backsliding on Immigration
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Nov 4, 2021
"Journalists should be careful not to misinform the public by suggesting that academic freedom and free-speech assurances protect instructors from the consequences of discriminatory or otherwise fireable behavior."
Academic Freedom in the Media: Who Is Being Silenced?
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Apr 24, 2023
The New Redeemers
The New Redeemers
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Jul 15, 2024
“The Arab Spring quickly turned into winter.”
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A Resilient Spirit Yearning for Justice: The Arab World Today
Powerlessness in the Arab World, thirteen years after the Arab Spring.
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Nov 16, 2023
"Liberals with a sense of history should understand that militarism and the desire for territorial expansion can lead institutions ostensibly rooted in liberal values to commit atrocities." liberalcurrents.com/western-libera…
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