Liberal Confessions

Reflections on MLK Day, 2026

Dr. King's Dream is gone from our politics. But it's still alive in American culture.

Jan 19 • Carol Horton

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September 2025

Abundance Liberalism: A Spiritual Critique

More clean energy and affordable housing would be great. But humans don't live on technocratic materialism alone

Sep 30, 2025 • Carol Horton

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August 2025

Context Matters

News coverage of a recent ICE raid at an Omaha meatpacking plant exemplifies how both Reds & Blues selectively erase pivotal facts from their narratives

Aug 4, 2025 • Carol Horton

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Liberalism in Crisis: Syllabus

Reconsidering American liberalism from the New Deal to the present

Aug 2, 2025 • Carol Horton

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July 2025

From the New Deal to Neoliberalism, Wokeism, & Trumpism: What happened to American liberalism?

Reassessing the past to make sense of our hyper-polarized present

Jul 24, 2025 • Carol Horton

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Rethinking American Liberalism

Zooming out from the craziness of current events to consider how we got here and where (at least ideally) we might want to go

Jul 17, 2025 • Carol Horton

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March 2025

Fortress Democrat

Bunkering down into denialism is a dead end strategy

Mar 5, 2025 • Carol Horton

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November 2024

Can Democrats Break Out of Their Box?

For their own mental health & the good of the country, let's hope so

Nov 15, 2024 • Carol Horton

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October 2024

Waiting

Where will we be one and a half weeks from today?

Oct 26, 2024 • Carol Horton

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September 2024

"They're Eating the Cats!"

Memeified demagoguery, the war on the working class, & America's downward spiral

Sep 21, 2024 • Carol Horton

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July 2024

Hive Mind

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

Jul 29, 2024 • Carol Horton

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May 2024

Against Zero-Dimensional Culture

Today's algorithm-driven Internet is destroying the multidimensionality of human culture

May 4, 2024 • Carol Horton

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