"I really believe that Iran would like to make a deal, and I think that's very smart of them, and I think that's a possibility to happen. It has a chance to be a great country with the same leadership. We aren't looking for regime change -- I just want to make that...
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Chomsky on Russiagate: Don’t Be Stupid
Here's some more Chomsky from a couple weeks ago on what he called the "farcical" fixation on Russiagate and Trump/Russia collusion. Twitter often distorts the critical difference between establishment liberalism & leftism so Chomsky is great to listen to on all...
A Liberal New Year’s Via Ralph Raico
It's a tough new year for me, with Trump and everything. He, and his opponents, have made me feel like I live in crazytown more than anything else in recent history. At least (per the recent "Vice" movie) Dick Cheney just seemed like a lying jerk. I was listening...
Bernie’s Contract On America
Yeah, yeah free money for everyone. And not ONE WORD about the wars. (Also: Truthdig loves Max Boot. #liberalism)
11/5/18 Stephen Walt on a Realist Foreign Policy
Professor Stephen Walt comes on the show to talk about his new book on American foreign policy. He explains the doctrine of "foreign policy realism," which tries to objectively evaluate the consequences of military endeavors, and not focus excessively on the morality...
TGIF: Spinoza – A Man for Our Troubled Times
In these interesting times, we all need someone to admire. I have found such a one in Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677), the 17th-century rationalist liberal philosopher who advocated freedom of thought and expression, toleration, and simple kindness. Spinoza lived in...
TGIF: Liberty, Democracy, and the Right
I am mystified by the claim that the long-standing libertarian critique of democracy furnishes aid and comfort to conservatives who display a taste for populist authoritarianism. Let me say at the outset that the libertarian critique has nothing to offer those who...
BLM Shuts Down ACLU’s Free Speech Event Because ‘Liberalism Is White Supremacy’
Students affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement crashed an event at the College of William & Mary, rushed the stage, and prevented the invited guest—the American Civil Liberties Union's Claire Gastañaga, a W & M alum—from speaking. Ironically,...
BLM Shuts Down ACLU's Free Speech Event Because 'Liberalism Is White Supremacy'
Students affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement crashed an event at the College of William & Mary, rushed the stage, and prevented the invited guest—the American Civil Liberties Union's Claire Gastañaga, a W & M alum—from speaking. Ironically,...
Quick Style Notes – Which "Liberal" Do We Mean?
This is my personal usage: Classical Liberal - "Classical Liberal" - the state should step out of the way of society. Essentially: laissez-faire, separation of church and state. General "Millsian" Liberal - "traditional liberal" - Society should be "open", with free...
TGIF: The Liberal Spirit and Its Opposite, Alt-Rightism
How ridiculous it is for Matt Lewis of The Daily Beast to write, "It seems observably true that libertarianism is disproportionately a gateway drug to the alt-right." To say the libertarian movement is a "gateway drug" is to say more than that some prominent members...
Anarchism as Radical Liberalism: Radicalizing Markets, Radicalizing Democracy
This piece is the ninth essay in the June C4SS Mutual Exchange Symposium: “Anarchy and Democracy.” Republished from the Center for a Stateless Society Classical liberalism emerged as a radical ideology, challenging the status quo of monarchy, mercantilism,...
Confessions of a Right-Wing Liberal
[This classic piece appeared in Ramparts, VI, 4, June 15, 1968. It was the fulfillment of an ideological trend that began a few years earlier when consistent libertarians, led by Rothbard, sensed an estrangement from the American right-wing due to its support of...
The Prehistory of the Alt-right
Reading “How I Left the Left” is a solid reminder that there’s not much intellectual heft remaining on that side of the fence. If an ideology sets out to isolate the locus of evil in people’s very identity, it is pretty well spent. This, in addition to the failure of...
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