American Dreaming
Jamie Paul, Alexander von Sternberg, Anwesh Satpathy, Matt McManus, Jacob Bielecki, Ayman Eckford, John-Paul HydePolitics, culture, and commentary from an outside the box, philosophically liberal perspective.
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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...
The Question No Interviewer Will Ask Ben Sasse
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This post is by contributor Jacob Bielecki.
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In December 2025, Ben Sasse, former Republican Senator f...
Socialism Will Be the Death of the Democrats
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“Socialism Will Be the Death of the Democrats”
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Socialism Will Be the Death of the Democrats
This essay also exists in audio form on the American Dreaming Podcast. Listen here.
Socialism is having a moment in America right now, and the Democrats seem to be here for it. Over the past year, socialists have enjoyed a wave of e...
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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/
One of the homes of the History Impossible podcast. Thoughts on history, politics, and culture can be found within.
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
I'm a writer from Metro-Detroit, Michigan with a degree in Communications and History from Oakland University.
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.
John-Paul Hyde is a writer living in Houston. He writes both fiction and non-fiction. He has two turtles, a dog, and an old cat with diabetes.
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