Archive - The Liberal by Tom Watson

Teaching in the Laboratory of Democracy

I found myself thinking about the sector I work in and just why teaching matters so much to me especially this year - as we face an existential election…

Mar 18 •

February 2024

The New York Times Is Broken

The hard truth, especially for New Yorkers who have read the paper for decades, is that it’s not cluelessness or simply bad journalism keeping from NYT…

Feb 20 •

January 2024

The Gathering Storm

History books are filled with existential moments for both states and entire societies. We need to face ours squarely. And win.

Jan 2 •

December 2023

Never Kept A Dollar Past Sunset: A Year of Live Music

So many of the musical footsteps I’ve walked in over this past year have been deeply worn, like the grooves on old LP. Happy birthday Keith Richards.

Dec 18, 2023 •

No, All Is Not Lost

The existential political fight to save this republic is here. It’s been here before - and it will be here again. Our job is to rise to the challenge…

Dec 7, 2023 •

November 2023

Celebrating Atrocities in Service of Ideology

The far left's embrace of terror is a warning - we are on the cusp of much darker times, and liberals must be willing to speak up, and stand for human…

Nov 28, 2023 •

The Plot Against America

Trump is crude and transparent in his threat to end American democracy as we know it. We have a year to make sure he fails.

Nov 14, 2023 •

October 2023

Are The Kids Alright?

What has created the conditions that support the widespread praise of terrorism and anti-Semitism on campus? It’s deeply disturbing. And it’s anything…

Oct 30, 2023 •

The Other Two State Solution

Is Ireland's violent 400-year history of resistance and war analogous to Israel and Palestine. No it's not. The stories are very different. Forget it…

Oct 22, 2023 •

Disinformation Is the New WMD

Twenty years later, the intellectual rigor, organizational diversity and ethical basis for those Iraq War protests doesn’t have anything close to a…

Oct 18, 2023 •

A Time for Choosing

Pure ice-cold antisemitism is guiding a lot of what you're reading and seeing in the last week. It's a crude hatred of Jews for being Jews, and it is as…

Oct 14, 2023 •

September 2023

We Need The Clash Right Now

Where is the anti-fascist music of 2023 - why does popular music in this era ignore the greatest authoritarian threat in the United States and the west…

Sep 25, 2023 •

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