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@gregsargent.bsky.socialReposted by @liberalcurrents.com"The thinkers that Fukuyama so admired might have thought little or nothing of his own humanity. Those who come after him may use his theoretical oeuvre in similar ways: in ways that he did not fully intend, or would not fully endorse. That is, after all, human." Liberal Currents keeps delivering!
@liberalcurrents.com"…such as personal piety, concern for the afterlife, the maintenance of order, and submission to authority. For much of American history, that theology overtly served white supremacy, distracting from and discrediting any movement for racial justice." www.liberalcurrents.com/you-cant-run...
@liberalcurrents.com"In the 19th-century South, the radical implications of Great Awakening revivalism were tamed to preserve the racial and gendered hierarchy built atop slavery, channelling potentially disruptive religious fervor into less dangerous impulses." www.liberalcurrents.com/you-cant-run...
@liberalcurrents.com"As Fukuyama puts it memorably, one of the great tasks of liberal democracy is to build a house for the Last Man, one that will quiesce his bullshit and spare the rest of us from its effluence." www.liberalcurrents.com/fukuyamas-gl...
@liberalcurrents.com"It is time, Longwell declares, for Democrats to meet voters in the media spaces they actually inhabit instead of hoping that good legislation and smart policy will automatically break through." www.liberalcurrents.com/you-cant-bui...
@gillianbrockell.comReposted by @liberalcurrents.comIt me
@bonniehonig.bsky.socialReposted by @liberalcurrents.comEvery word
@liberalcurrents.com"Full bodily autonomy, when we have it, will benefit everyone, of all genders. That autonomy will come when every abortion or transition takes place in a context that supports it." www.liberalcurrents.com/imagining-li...
@liberalcurrents.comHalf the Answer #107: ICE has been transporting people in inhumane conditions to countries to which they have no affiliation or connection. What do the courts think about this? It's…confusing. Reporter Gillian Brockell is here to get the word out. www.liberalcurrents.com/at-first-ice...
@liberalcurrents.comThe Reconstruction Papers is now available in audio www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstr...
@turtlemun.bsky.socialReposted by @liberalcurrents.comLiberal Currents can't keep getting AWAY WITH IT
@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.comReposted by @liberalcurrents.comEnjoyed having @dollemore.com on to talk with @ryangeddie.bsky.social and myself about the many horrible things going on, but also engaged in a little hopium about blue Texas www.liberalcurrents.com/dreaming-of-...
@liberalcurrents.com"It is worth pushing through the sickening bile offered by figures like Matt Walsh and Richard Hanania to look at the political implications of their words." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion...
@liberalcurrents.com"In different ways, Nussbaum and Fukuyama counsel humility—and Nussbaum in particular is an advocate for reverence. But reverence is best understood as a map, not submission. For a mariner to respect the waves is not to refuse the crossing." www.liberalcurrents.com/fukuyamas-gl...
@liberalcurrents.com"Humans have, in a real sense, always been cyborgs. From vaccines to psychiatric drugs to Fukuyama’s glasses, we fashion the tools that allow us to climb above the tuchē that threatens to limit us." www.liberalcurrents.com/fukuyamas-gl...
@liberalcurrents.comOut of the Jaws #13: YouTube news commentator Jesse Dollemore joins Ryan and Adam to talk about his personal journey, the lunatics in the evangelical right and their avatar of death Pete Hegseth, and the possibility of a blue Texas. www.liberalcurrents.com/dreaming-of-...
@liberalcurrents.com"The people that the Trump administration sometimes pretended this war was meant to protect have seen their circumstances worsen, a considerable achievement given how bad things were for them before the war began." www.liberalcurrents.com/ice-shoots-a...
@liberalcurrents.com"This situation developed after Tuesday’s order from ICE to increase agents’ daily quota of immigration arrests by 1,000. ... Getting the pile of bodies packed into detention centers and airplanes and graves up to the millions is the only goal that matters to childish bigot Stephen Miller and DHS."
@liberalcurrents.com"Yesterday evening in New York City, ICE officers surrounded and fired shots into a car. One of their shots hit the driver, Oscal Belgal, in the neck. ... His five-year-old son was in the backseat of the car that masked agents of the state surrounded and fired their guns into."
@liberalcurrents.com"The basic expectation of a memoir is that it confesses something personal. For Francis Fukuyama, the glimpses of the man behind the ideas are phantasmal and fleeting. He has, in one sense, always been a rather personal writer… But he was never intimate. "That hasn’t changed…not in the slightest."
