After a grad school experience I would dare to call traumatic, I struggle with chronic writers’ block. But I still feel like I have things to say, and I still want to learn how to make myself heard and understood. I want to get back in the game, somehow.

I’m a liberal individualist and one thing I have observed about the communitarian critics of my worldview is that they seem to think the fact of human sociality alone implies we ought to abandon individualism of any kind. That is wrong and they never do the work beyond it. A thread.

"It is precisely because liberalism cannot take sides that liberals must. Liberalism defends individuals, and it depends upon them." www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-n...

Being a liberal means trying to make the world a better place, despite the best efforts of basically everyone saying they’re just trying to make the world a better place

"It remains a model of how moral clarity, critical insight, institutional creativity, and attentiveness to social science can come together in the service of freedom, compassion, and social progress." www.liberalcurrents.com/in-defense-o...

I don’t like drawing sharp distinctions between different kinds of liberal. It needlessly politicizes what should be scientific questions: under what conditions do markets promote general welfare, and under what conditions does government, or any other institution or practice?

Delighted to make my debut on Liberal Currents!

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