# Liberalism.org

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## Posts
- [The Eighteenth Brumaire and Collective Wrongs](https://www.liberalism.org/p/the-eighteenth-brumaire-and-collective-wrongs): What Napoleon’s nephew can teach us about populism.
- [Liberal Toleration and Ordinary Vices](https://www.liberalism.org/p/liberal-toleration-and-ordinary-vices): Hypocrisy, snobbery, betrayal, and misanthropy are everywhere. Here’s what to do about it.
- [The Automated Overton Window ](https://www.liberalism.org/p/the-automated-overton-window): How digital systems shape which political alternatives become thinkable 
- [Can Democracy Survive if We Stand on Different Foundations?](https://www.liberalism.org/p/can-democracy-survive-if-we-stand-on-different-foundations): Characterizing conservative and liberal beliefs should be just the start of a much larger conversation.
- [A Civic Education That Extends America](https://www.liberalism.org/p/a-civic-education-that-extends-america): Educating the next generation in American civic culture has always been important. Now more than ever, we must extend that promise to all.
- [Contact as Cure: What the Research on Travel Actually Shows](https://www.liberalism.org/p/contact-as-cure-what-the-research-on-travel-actually-shows): Visiting World Cup fans won’t be surprised to learn that travel broadens the mind.
- [Is It Really Socialism?](https://www.liberalism.org/p/is-it-really-socialism):  Don’t fight over mere words. Understand what’s behind them.
- [Who Owns That Bat?](https://www.liberalism.org/p/who-owns-that-bat): When conservation goes beyond carbon, local knowledge is the key.
- [Philip Freneau: The Poet We Need Right Now](https://www.liberalism.org/p/philip-freneau-the-poet-we-need-right-now): Nations always tell stories about themselves. Philip Freneau’s “The Rising Glory of America” tells an especially timely one.
- [The Ghost in the State](https://www.liberalism.org/p/the-ghost-in-the-state): Knowing an individual’s will is easy. Knowing the will of a collective is like chasing a ghost in a machine.
- [Conservative Values, Trust, and the Prospects for Democratic Renewal](https://www.liberalism.org/p/conservative-values-trust-and-the-prospects-for-democratic-renewal):  A new study offers insight into the values of ordinary conservative voters. 
- [A Liberalism of Principle, Not Program](https://www.liberalism.org/p/a-liberalism-of-principle-not-program): Slavery’s opponents knew how to keep things simple. Today’s liberals should do likewise.
- [The Academy’s Captured Gatekeepers](https://www.liberalism.org/p/the-academy-s-captured-gatekeepers): How a voluntary, bottom-up answer to an information problem became a federally enforced cartel, and why prying it loose is a cause every liberal should own.
- [Lessons on Liberal Balance from Brazil](https://www.liberalism.org/p/lessons-on-liberal-balance-from-brazil): Recent events may hold lessons for other countries with presidential systems, including the United States.
- [Against Friends, Against Enemies](https://www.liberalism.org/p/against-friends-against-enemies): On the liberalism of productive ambiguity. And pineapples.
- [“Sit Down, Theodore!” Slang and Spontaneous Order](https://www.liberalism.org/p/sit-down-theodore-slang-and-spontaneous-order): Slang words come and go; the language lives on.
- [Liberalism in the Age of Weaponized Interdependence](https://www.liberalism.org/p/liberalism-in-the-age-of-weaponized-interdependence): Liberalism must abandon the assumption that, in international trade, cooperation is the mature stage, and conflict the primitive one.
- [Public Choice: Politics without Romance](https://www.liberalism.org/p/public-choice-politics-without-romance): We choose in groups because we value being united. Public choice economics seeks to make sense of what happens next.
- [Civic Education for Liberal Freedom ](https://www.liberalism.org/p/civic-education-for-liberal-freedom): To address our civic disintegration, we must reprioritize a civics of reflective patriotism: grateful for America, while perpetually questioning and arguing. 
- [Private Property, Liberalism, and Human Flourishing](https://www.liberalism.org/p/private-property-liberalism-and-human-flourishing-3926): Private property enables individuals to pursue happiness through their own free choices. It also shields our individual and institutional projects from arbitrary power. 
- [Enshittification, Despotification, and the Open Internet](https://www.liberalism.org/p/enshittification-despotification-and-the-open-internet): It’s not about whether technology is inherently good or bad, liberating or oppressive. Architecture shapes incentives; incentives shape outcomes.
- [Liberalism’s Uneasy Relationship with Democracy](https://www.liberalism.org/p/liberalism-s-uneasy-relationship-with-democracy): Liberalism can’t do without democracy. But sometimes, democracy errs. What then?
- [The Power of Public Unions](https://www.liberalism.org/p/the-power-of-public-unions): Not all labor unions are alike. Public sector unions face different incentives, and they often bargain away better governance.
- [Educational Polarization and the Politics of Young Men](https://www.liberalism.org/p/educational-polarization-and-the-politics-of-young-men): Our political battle lines fall increasingly along our growing educational divide, in which young women are advancing, and young men are falling behind. 
- [Federal Courts, Local Wrongs: Growing Federal Power Means Less Accountability](https://www.liberalism.org/p/federal-courts-local-wrongs-growing-federal-power-means-less-accountability): Federal agents have always had extensive immunities. Their growing presence in all of our lives makes that a growing problem. And the courts aren’t helping.