Dunno 'bout y'all but I think a land of free soil, free labor, and free people where full citizenship is open to any person of any race, creed, nationality, sex, or gender under the heavens who claims it is a damn inspiring vision. Call me old-fashioned.

The owner of the New York Times has proudly proclaimed: “We’re not the resistance. We are nobody’s opposition.” To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. Liberal Currents is that. Help us grow our voice. www.liberalcurrents.com/support-us/

One month till release day link.springer.com/book/9783032...

Great stuff by @integralrising.bsky.social

Building on Daniel Tutt and John Ralston Saul's work, my new essay applies Lukács's irrationalism to six political movements — from @mattpolprof.bsky.social's postmodern conservatism, the Žižek-Lacanian left, Catholic integralism, & Ken Wilber's integral movement. www.erikhaines.org/p/revisiting...

Ive got the new tagline for all my future work on liberal socialism

Cover and explainer for "What is Liberal Socialism?" for @repeaterbooks.bsky.social is out! With Florian Maiwald and @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com

Very well said, as well as your follow-ups. 👏👏👏

Thanks @gregsargent.bsky.social

Crucial point in @mattpolprof.bsky.social's thread: Hegseth is drawing on a long tradition that sees war as cleansing, purifying violence of a distinctly hypernationalist kind. This is unmistakable in Hegseth's lionizing of "death and destruction" and the awesome precision of US military killing.

Unflattering photo.

Great piece by @gregsargent.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com on the "Christian" nationalist bombast that has sorrounded the Iran war, right down to the celebration of macho power and violence... newrepublic.com/article/2083...

Pete Hegseth just held a prayer service in which he appealed for God's help in killing our "enemies" with maximal violence and brutality. Hegseth's bloodlust and sadism are drawing sustenance from his particular brand of far-right Christianity. 1/ (new piece from me) newrepublic.com/article/2083...

@mattpolprof.bsky.social Matt knows a lot ; he's been there, done that ...

Looking forward to listening to @mattpolprof.bsky.social talk in TO. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRDP...

Congrats @avilewis.ca and @ndp.ca www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Absolutely

Glad you went. The point is that the biggest possible numbers on the streets is visual confirmation that the regime isn’t in control and people do not fear it. That matters for opposing an authoritarian consolidation; the perception of weakness is weakness. Maxing crowd numbers is a valid goal

I appreciate that this article properly situates Nietzsche's thought as serious and valuable critique that we must consider and doesn't merely dismiss him as a bad influence on the right. I deliberately throw away parts of Nietzsche that I disagree with proudly. The right does it dishonestly.

This week's Philosophy for the People essay just went up. (It's a lightly revised transcript of the talk I gave last Monday at York for the panel with @mattpolprof.bsky.social, Les Jacobs, and Christine Sypnowich.)

Interesting if depressing thread:

And we're LIVE! Join @DesmondCole live on the NDP convention floor in Winnipeg as we find out who will be the party's next federal leader. He'll be joined by guests @naomiaklein.bsky.social, El Jones, Martin Lukacs, and more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=741B...

Weird how victim/hero is also the defining characteristic of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

Thanks @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com. I have a new big primer on the right's anti-intellectualism coming for @liberalcurrents.com soon!

as @mattpolprof.bsky.social has argued, the key emotional payoff of reactionary thought is that it allows you to simultaneously imagine yourself as the oppressed victim and the conquering hero www.liberalcurrents.com/the-far-righ...

Great @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social episode. Good tune up for my lecture on Sowell/Shelby/Mills in two weeks! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

No Kings!

Great video by @michaelburns.bsky.social on militaristic Christian nationalism in America Sadly all the more relevant than a few months ago m.youtube.com/watch?v=wouI...

"Trump has stained the US, but it isn’t really clear to anyone yet if he’s permanently altered its character. Clarity will come from future elections." Good @brianbeutler.bsky.social case for making Trump/war profiteering/corruption big issue in coming elections: www.offmessage.net/p/expose-all...

“In the span of a year, he has turned The United States—the main author and guarantor of the post-Second World War, rules-based international order—into the biggest threat to that order” www.liberalcurrents.com/why-we-fight/

Gary is a treasure from whom I've learned so much

“Gary Dorrien Is Christian Socialism’s Greatest Champion.” These are the words of scholar Matt McManus, who recently wrote an extensive profile on @unionseminary.bsky.social professor Rev. Dorrien in the Jacobin...

My kid is watching @epochphilosophy.com videos to learn about hauntology. Every age your kids go through brings something awesome and cool and new when you're a parent. And right now I'm loving this newfound intellectual voraciousness and drive to seek out big and profound ideas. Parenting is neat.

Absolutely take a look @theunpopulist.net

For those who still aren't @theunpopulist.net readers: give us a look. We publish 4-6 times a week—so no risk of inundating your inbox—and we strive for every piece to be genuinely insightful or actionable. If you read us but don't subscribe to us—it *really* helps us if you subscribe to us.

Thanks @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social

See e.g. the work John Rawls (his 'theory of justice' is liberal but anti-capitalist), or by @mattpolprof.bsky.social - e.g. aeon.co/essays/the-c...

Great to see @avilewis.ca rebuilding ties to Canada's unions and blue collar workers for the @ndp.ca www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6dJ...

@kvallier.bsky.social speaking painful truths

My review of "Muskism" for @jacobinmag.bsky.social

Elon Musk is an heir to the reactionary modernists of a century ago, a man whose utopian speculations about the power of technology go hand in hand with apocalyptic doomsaying about the woke mind virus and the “great replacement.”

My review of "Muskism" by @quinnslobodian.com and Ben Tarnoff for @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/03/musk...

Thanks

Also, @mattpolprof.bsky.social has a great piece that helps draw that through line from the intellectual father of the Confederacy (John C. Calhoun) to modern fascism and far-right politics.

Excited to talk about post PhD life at 230 today!

Wish I could be there! In honour of this event, here is a picture of me in attendance at Cohen’s Gilbert Ryle lectures at Trent University in 2001.