The Reconstruction Papers

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An audiobook adaptation of an essay collection produced by Liberal Currents. This collection brings together experts in a number of fields to offer bold visions for a post-Trump, liberal democratic America.

  1. 2d ago

    The Return of Constitutional Politics

    Written by lawyer and Liberal Currents contributing editor Adam Rust, read by Tessa Flannery. This essay walks through the necessary role of constitutional politics, and the more limited role of constitutional law, in American history and today. We cannot afford to sit around hoping that judges will solve our problems for us. We need, as Martin Luther King Jr. put it, to transform “thin paper to thick action.”Full text available.

    The Return of Constitutional Politics

  2. 3d ago

    The Ark And The Deluge

    Written by Liberal Currents contributing editor and student of intellectual history Guillaume A.W. Attia, read by Tessa Flannery. Attia looks at the confident and militant history of liberalism from the French Revolution to Reconstruction.Full text available.

    The Ark And The Deluge

  3. 4d ago

    Remember Who You Are, Liberal

    Written by Liberal Currents executive editor Samantha Hancox-Li, read by Tessa Flannery. Hancox-Li closes the collection with a discussion of liberalism, the value system motivating this entire project. Liberalism is not a value-neutral “referee” standing outside politics but is rooted in a deep conception of freedom—personal as well as political.Full text available.

    Remember Who You Are, Liberal

  4. 5d ago

    Rebuilding International Law

    Written by Y. L. al-Sheikh, read by Tessa Flannery. Provides an ambitious rethinking of foreign policy from the perspective of America's relationship to international institutions, rather than of our own domestic ones.

    Rebuilding International Law

  5. 6d ago

    In Search Of An FDR Consensus

    Written by the pseudonymous Secretary of Defense Rock, a military and international security expert who cannot write under his own name for professional reasons, read by Tessa Flannery. Rock has a bold vision for rebuilding the institutional and, more important, democratic basis of American foreign policy.

    In Search Of An FDR Consensus

  6. Oct 25

    Towards A Third Reconstruction

    Written by University of Iowa F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor of Sociology Victor Ray, read by Tessa Flannery. Ray surveys the Trump administration’s destruction of the post-Civil Rights racial integration policies. He argues for the necessity of their revival and lays out a practical plan to do so.

    Towards A Third Reconstruction

  7. Oct 24

    Housing Resilience And Financial Stability For All

    Written by Climate and Community Institute Senior Fellow Moira Birss, read by Tessa Flannery. Birss dives into the difficult issue of insurance and risk mitigation in climate-vulnerable parts of the country. Her creative proposal mixes government-provided social insurance with administrative institutions that will seek to lower people’s exposure to climate-related risks.

    Housing Resilience And Financial Stability For All

  8. Oct 23

    To Rebuild Democracy In The Hearts Of Americans, We Need A New National Service Initiative

    Written by Pulaski Institution president & CEO and Liberal Currents contributing editor Alan Elrod, read by Tessa Flannery. Elrod proposes an ambitious federal national service program to overcome the erosion of civil society and reduce the personal and emotional tolls of political polarization.

    To Rebuild Democracy In The Hearts Of Americans, We Need A New National Service Initiative
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An audiobook adaptation of an essay collection produced by Liberal Currents. This collection brings together experts in a number of fields to offer bold visions for a post-Trump, liberal democratic America.

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    2026
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