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The Reconstruction Papers
by Liberal Currents
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.
Episodes
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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…
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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...
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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.
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Four Principles For Comprehensive Higher Education Reform
Written by Michigan State education professor Brendan Cantwell, read by Tessa Flannery. Cantwell explains the accumulated difficulties that institutions of higher education faced in America before the present crisis, and outlines a framework for reform.
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How To Normalize Immigration
Written by associate professor of political science and the Herbert Kurz Chair of Constitutional Rights at CUNY Brooklyn College Anna Law, read by Tessa Flannery. Law writes about the desperately needed reforms to our immigration system, a problem at the heart of the entire Trump era. Law…
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Imagining Life After Patriarchy
Written by author and analyst Jude Doyle, read by Tessa Flannery. Doyle explores the question of gender and outlines a liberal vision of how the state should relate to this deeply personal matter, from education to legal rights to bodily autonomy. Full text available.
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Seeing Like A Gardener: A New Framework For The Public Funding Of Science
Written by Analogue Group founder Aishwarya Khanduja and Executive Director of the Good Science Project Stuart Buck, read by Tessa Flannery. Khanduja and Buck present a bold rethinking of the enterprise of American science and research. Drawing on the metaphor of a garden, they argue that the...
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Sustainable Fiscal Policy For America
Written by economist Ed Dolan, read by Tessa Flannery. Dolan lays out a vision for rules-based fiscal policy, noting that the credibility that such approaches provide have helped finance generous social democratic states such as Sweden’s. Full text available.
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Rebalancing Trade In A Fragmented International Order
Written by Steve Randy Waldman, read by Tessa Flannery. Waldman talks about the perils of the unbalanced trade regime that America has run for decades, and offers an elegant solution for it. The imbalances of foreign trade are, despite neoliberals’ protestations, inextricable from our current...
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The Liberal Economy
Written by economics graduate and Master's student in urban economics Maia Mindel, read by Tessa Flannery. Mindel diagnoses the failures of our current economic regime, which are in no small part responsible for the current authoritarian surge. The artificial scarcity of housing, the rising costs...
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Reconstructing The Senate
Written by Yale University political theorist and lecturer Kevin J. Elliott, read by Tessa Flannery. This essay discusses the ways we might bring the Senate more in line with the logic of a system that is overall partisan and majoritarian rather than deliberative and collegial. Full text available.
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Fixing Federalism
Written by Liberal Currents publisher Adam Gurri, read by Tessa Flannery. Drawing inspiration both from peer countries with federalist systems developed after America's and from the basic logic of the Fifteenth Amendment and the Voting Rights Act, Gurri proposes a radical overhaul of the...
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Fixing Article V
Written by constitutional lawyer Robert Black, read by Tessa Flannery. Black examines the hard problem of amending the Constitution—in particular, the hard problem of fixing the very process by which the Constitution is amended. Full text available.
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Guardrails For Democracy
Written by attorney and mediator Judith Starr, read by Tessa Flannery. A proposal to rebuild the system of watchdog agencies that were put in place after Watergate, as well as to reform the Privacy Act. The toothlessness of these measures in the second Trump term has revealed vulnerabilities of…
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Reconstructing The Executive Branch
Written by Marquette University law professor Patrick J. Sobkowski , read by Tessa Flannery. If there is anything we have learned from the Trump era, it is that the checks on executive unilateralism have all but evaporated. Sobkowski proposes some much needed reforms to roll back executive...
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Institutional Reform That Can Be Done With a Simple Majority in Congress
Written by University of Illinois political-science professor Nicholas Grossman, read by Tessa Flannery. This essay is unique among those in this collection in its focus on the short term. Before any more expansive and permanent work can be done, we will need to move beyond our immediate…
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Introduction: Beyond Resistance, Beyond Reform
Written and read by Liberal Currents publisher Adam Gurri. The old methods are no longer enough. The status quo is dead. This chapter introduces The Reconstruction Papers, a project to provide bold visions for a liberal democratic future. Full text available.
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