American Dreaming
Jamie Paul, Rio Veradonir, Alexander von Sternberg, Jacob Bielecki, Anwesh Satpathy, Matt McManus, Ayman EckfordPolitics, culture, and commentary from an outside the box, philosophically liberal perspective.
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A Puritan’s History of the United States
A version of this essay was originally published in Queer Majority as part of its June 2025 “Heretic” Issue. Read it here.
“The Puritan’s utter lack of aesthetic sense, his distrust of all romantic emotion, his unmatchable intoler...
Has Anyone Been More Vindicated Than Sam Harris?
This article is a guest post by Rio Veradonir
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More than 20 years ago, the neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris made a political prediction that now reads less like a warning about where liberal democracies might...
Why Words Don’t Mean Anything Anymore
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“Then they tell you about the pain-relieving ingredient; there’s always got to be a lot of that. Nobody wants anything less than ‘extra strength.’ ‘Extra strength’ is the absolute minimum. You can’t even get ‘strength’; ‘st...
The Class Politics of Trans Issues
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I have a new piece out in the Times of India putting the panic over falling birth rates into perspective. Read it here.
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That trans activism has proved enormously damaging, not on...
How the Radical Right Uses Marx
This article is a guest post by Matt McManus
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Karl Marx’s legacy is a complex one. If Plato was the quintessential philosopher who theorized about the world while being incapable of changing it, Marx occupies the oppos...
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Writer. Founding editor of American Dreaming. Creator of the Memory-Hole Archive. Contributing editor at Bi.org. Former managing editor of Queer Majority. Pasta enthusiast. https://americandreaming.substack.com/
Co-author of The Reasonable Majority, a book coming soon from Pitchstone. Founding Editor, Queer Majority. Advisory Board, Project Liberal and The Institute for Liberal Values.
One of the homes of the History Impossible podcast. Thoughts on history, politics, and culture can be found within.
I'm a writer from Metro-Detroit, Michigan with a degree in Communications and History from Oakland University.
Forever contrarian and temporally alienated. Struggling Freelancer. Historian-in-making. Editor-thelastdvd.com. Words-Quillette, The Wire, OrissaPost etc.
Matt McManus teaches at Spelman College and is the author of The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism and The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism amongst other books
Ayman Eckford is a Ukrainian journalist, LGBT activist, and political analyst for the Solid Info think tank who covers civil rights, conspiracy theories, the history of ideas, American politics, and gender and LGBT issues, among other topics.
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