Sophia Hottel

Aug 13, 2024 | liberalcurrents.com | Jacob Grier |Paul Crider |Samantha Hancox-Li |Sophia Hottel

History is not just an objective record of what has been. It is a reminder of what can be. Useful history offers inspiration but not hagiography, cautionary tales but not empty moralism. The Founding Fathers’ success in establishing new, stable political institutions is tempered by how relatively quickly the society served by those institutions devolved into a civil war.

Aug 9, 2024 | liberalcurrents.com | Paul Crider |Samantha Hancox-Li |Sophia Hottel |Jacob Grier

Gun to your head, if you had to vote for Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, whom would you choose? This should be an easy question for libertarians, but for many it isn’t. “The gun would go off,” quipped Libertarian Party presidential candidate Chase Oliver in a recent interview with Reason magazine’s Nick Gillespie.