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Can Liberal Democracies Control Immigration Without a Massive Loss of Freedom? Bill Kristol Moderates a Debate Between Chandran Kukathas and…
Stopping immigration requires draconian enforcement but not stopping it fuels populist demagogues
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August 2025
How Should We Respond to the MAGA Right's Embrace of the Cult of Cruelty? A Conversation With Radley Balko and Charlie Sykes
A combination of appealing to the rank and file's better angles and social ostracism for the pundits glorifying state violence might restore decency in…
Aug 31
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Aaron Ross Powell
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Liberals Cannot Stop Authoritarianism by Compromising With It
They should heed Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza's warning at LibCon2025 to not fall for the false narratives that authoritarians use to…
Aug 28
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Radley Balko
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What Is the Glue Binding the New Right's Disparate Factions? Zack Beauchamp's Conversation with Laura Field
The political theorist says that nationalism and a nostalgia for old gender norms are part of the answer
Aug 27
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Zack Beauchamp
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The DOJ Is So Badly Decimated It's as if Trump Dropped an 'Atomic Bomb' On It
A preeminent conservative legal scholar at LibCon2025 agreed with his fellow panelists about what this administration has done to the agency
Aug 26
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Benjamin Wittes
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LibCon2025 Receives Rave Reviews
As Trump's troops rolled into the nation's capital, attendees at our second annual convening at the Watergate Hotel left recharged and determined to…
Aug 24
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Berny Belvedere
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Why Courts Can't Save America From This President
Our system has depended on norms, not laws, against the abuse of executive power and those are outside the scope of the judicial branch
Aug 20
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'Appeasing an Aggressor Never Leads to Peace': Vladimir Kara-Murza
The brave Russian dissident who Putin poisoned and imprisoned stood tall and condemned tyrants, emphasizing that gatherings like LibCon2025 are…
Aug 18
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Liberals Need Moral Clarity, Not Moral Purity, in Their Struggle Against Authoritarianism
We should take inspiration from Frederick Douglass and strive for a broad alliance
Aug 14
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Shikha Dalmia
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We Are Well on the Road to an Immigration Police State
A roundup of The UnPopulist’s work in the first six months of Trump’s second term
Aug 12
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Birch Smith
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Yoram Hazony’s National Conservatism Wants to Abandon Liberal Democracy so that the Jewish People Maintain Hegemony in Israel
He wants to give Protestant America the right to disempower other faiths and ethnic groups so that Israel can do the same
Aug 10
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Michael G. Holzman
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The Right's Project to Rewrite History Along MAGA Lines: A Video Roundup
Our early-August collection of clips on Trumpworld's attempts to honor Confederate figures, whitewash history, and provide state funding for an AI…
Aug 8
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Landry Ayres
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