Adam Gurri

Thank you for having me.

Yeah, I mean, part of it is that I was of a community of people who simply loves writing and thinking about ideas, period.

Obviously, in my lifetime, I'm 40.

Just the idea of you get a blog, you get online, you know, you find your audience much more

straightforward, even if you're not in the ideas industry.

But what happened for Liberal Currents specifically is that in 2016, Donald Trump won the election, as we all know, obviously, I had a pre-existing group of people that we were all writing together with.

And we sort of step back with, at the time we were writing some fairly academic stuff in terms of, and when I say academic, I mean kind of pejoratively in the sense of like, you know, it was continental philosophy and like it was, it was very abstract stuff that wasn't really about politics, for example.

Sure.

Um, so Trump wins.

And a group of us say, we need to shift focus.

And also, there is not really a place that is just for liberalism.

And we were looking at what Jacobin Magazine was doing for socialism, which was interesting.

Obviously, the situations for the two ideologies are quite different.

But there are still reasons why the approach would be valid in each case.

So for Jacobin, it was that socialism had become a pariah in American life.

And also after the Cold War was just considered simply discredited.

And, you know, they wanted to say, which I think is frankly legitimate, that socialism is a tradition of thought that has much more interesting implications

depth to it than just what the Soviet Union did and made sort of like made the brand for a long time.

And Jacobin Magazine is going to be the contemporary home of serious thinking about socialism.

That's great.