Liberal Currents has been my main project since 2017. It has grown a great deal over the years, and drastically so since November of 2024, as it has gained a reputation for being a true opposition publication with valuable insights. Please support us. Just signing up to get our essays in your inbox for free Continue reading Please Subscribe to Liberal Currents
In the early minutes of an April 24th 36 years ago, Martin Gurri’s first son was born. For most of my life I have thought of that day as something that was mine, as my birthday. But I was just an infant—what did I know of days and their significance? On the day itself, the Continue reading A 36-Year-Old Father
And now for something a little different. I d been skeptical of the hype around Clubhouse, as I m old enough to remember many waves of social media hype in my lifetime. The reality is invariably more prosaic. That said, the reality in question has led me to many deep friendships and I dare say to community. Continue reading Embracing Performance: Some Thoughts on Clubhouse
I received a great deal of feedback after my last post on the state of my paper. The most important of these came from Ryan Muldoon, who very generously laid out what he thought options were in seeking publication in an academic journal. He suggested some papers and books to engage with in the paper, Continue reading My Paper is on SSRN, and Other Project Updates
Almost a quarter of the way into the year and it s my first post of 2021. A few things have perhaps happened since my last rather bitter post. But this isn t a post about any of those things. This is a post about my paper, which I ve talked about before. The very idea of what Continue reading The Journey of My (Still Unpublished, But Finally Written) Paper
The pandemic did not truly begin in 2020; it began sometime in November and December of 2019. When the clock strikes midnight tonight and digital calendars tick over from December 31, 2020 to January 1, 2021, we will still be in the middle of by far the largest wave of COVID-19 spread in the US Continue reading Neither the Beginning Nor the End
I began to write a typical end of the year post, only because this was hardly a typical year (even discounting our family growing!) I did not much enjoy what I was writing. What I really wanted to do was just a fun post about what I ve read and written and what we ve done at Continue reading Words, Words, Words
It s been almost four months since my last project update. I use these updates to think out loud, to act as a sort of public record mainly for myself, as well as to solicit advice and gauge interest. From the start I ve said that the primary goal of this project was to build a basic Continue reading Applying the Foundation
I wrote for The Umlaut for a little less than two years, January 2013 October 2014. My perspective on many of the topics I wrote about then has changed so much that I rarely revisit any of the posts there. One that I do find myself going back to again and again is a Continue reading Craft, Community, and Healthy Ambition
Hello again. Tomorrow I go back to work after six weeks of parental leave. I was, of course, tremendously lucky to have that, not to mention to have a job, and one that I can do from my apartment. Every few days in the nearly three months since the COVID-19 outbreak began in earnest in Continue reading Project Gameplan Update