The practices that make your life better are the same ones that sustain a free society. It's time liberalism took that seriously.

A podcast conversation.

(Originally published February 16, 2024) One way to defend liberal institutions is to argue that they are value neutral. Thus a liberal government protects the persons and property of its citizens, but doesn’t coerce them into a particular conception of ...

We should aim for harmlessness. No matter what else we set ourselves to throughout our lives, and no matter what other values and principles we might hold to, unpinning and informing it all must be a commitment to refrain from causing harm. Sometimes harm ...

A family parable about forging a sense of place and meaning—and what it says about the liberal project.

Mere tolerance is necessary for liberalism to function, but liberalism becomes stronger if we can move beyond it.

Click here to listen in you favorite podcast app One of the difficult, and interesting, questions a system of political liberty needs to deal with is how to approach differing conceptions of what the good life looks like and how people ought to behave. We ...