The host herself 📢 @shikhadalmia.bsky.social — ISMA's founder and editor of The UnPopulist — takes the stage at LibCon2026, July 16–17 at The Watergate in DC.
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This is a great clip and goes to the heart of what I am saying. But it vindicates me because he is making the same critique of the libertarian movement: Deriving answers for political questions from axioms doesn't take you far; you end up sneaking in normative framework while professing neutrality
Dems need to pick up the mantle of a Second Reconstruction @andycraig.bsky.social and moi say at @theunpopulist.net. That means putting Trump's authoritarianism center stage.
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Powerful and true:
US had overweening POTUSes before. But only Trump has attacked every element of our constitutional operating system, note @andycraig.bsky.social and moi at @thebulwark.com. We'll need a 2nd Reconstruction and Dems will have to lead it as a cultist GOP can't.
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World Cup exemplifies the true spirit of America; cagefights in the White House violate it. @bernybelvedere.bsky.social and @leonkrauze.bsky.social at @theunpopulist.net on how Trump's ICE raids and visa restrictions are shaming US on its 250th.
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New at @thebulwark.com 🚨🚨
@shikhadalmia.bsky.social and @andycraig.bsky.social—my brilliant @theunpopulist.net colleagues—have a fantastic new essay laying out what the Reconstruction Agenda needs to look like.
Islamophobia is the glue producing a new geopolitical alliance between white, Hindu and Israeli supremacists—no matter how much shit talking they've done about each other. Eye opening piece at @theunpopulist.net
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Excellent suggestions by @shikhadalmia.bsky.social and @andycraig.bsky.social, of @theunpopulist.net renown.
It is not true that libertarian thought is, necessarily, based on an axiom. Here is Milton Friedman, the most influential libertarians of the last 60 years, explicitly arguing against it.
The UnPopulist
"America has weathered upheavals before. But never, since the Civil War, has its political operating system faced such a fundamental assault."
Nicolás Drpic
How Democrats can lead the charge for a new Reconstruction—if they can avoid becoming what they defeat.
My interview with @illsp.bsky.social where I explain why I was so profoundly disappointed with the libertarian movement:
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Shikha Dalmia's conversation with the Illiberalism Studies Program
