Liberal Currents
liberalcurrents.com · Group blog · on HN since 2019
Liberal Currents is a publication of political essays on American politics, housing, tech billionaires, and liberal and left policy.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for political analysis and for an outlook less doom-laden than others, though one says its doom and gloom can be demotivating.
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Most-shared posts
- 1The Vicious Cycle of American Housing3 people · 9 points · first shared 2024 · 1 comments on HN
- 2Tech oligarchs have turned against the system that made them1 people · 209 points · first shared 2025 · 115 comments on HN
- 3Elon Musk's Artificial God1 people · 6 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 4Burial at Sea: The Fall of Maddox, the Internet's First “Outsider” Celebrity1 people · 4 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 5No Is Enough1 people · 4 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 6The Politics of Humiliation1 people · 4 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 7To Reject Bigotry, Libertarians Should Become Neoliberals1 people · 3 points · first shared 2022 · 4 comments on HN
- 8The Plutocrat-Populist Axis1 people · 3 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 9Adoption, Belonging, and the Question of Citizenship1 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 10The Case for Abolishing the National Environmental Policy Ac (NEPA)1 people · 2 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 11A Disease of Affluence1 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · 1 comments on HN
- 12No One Is Owed an Audience: Facebook, Free Speech, and Liberal Tolerance1 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 13Does Capital Imply Coercion?1 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 14America's Future Is African1 people · 1 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 15Killing for Content1 people · 1 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
dcre · 2026-01-14
To me, debunking hype has always felt like arguing with an advertisement. A good read about that: https://www.liberalcurrents.com/deflating-hype-wont-save-us/
eli · 2026-08-21
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstruction-papers/ is explicitly aiming to be a Project 2028 book for the left.
martythemaniak · 2026-02-28
If Americans would like to better understand what it is that they actually did last year: https://www.liberalcurrents.com/killing-for-content/
davidw · 2026-01-12
I find myself seeking out non-doomer people to read, since the doom and gloom doesn't really help, it's just demotivating. "Look for the helpers" and all that.
This outlet has some good things from time to time, like https://www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-going-to-win/
That said, yeah this is really bad.