John Clarke Whitaker

The Liberal Patriot Shuts Its Doors

The prophetic, under-appreciated, and altogether invaluable publication The Liberal Patriot is shutting its doors, the funding having dried up like a…

Mar 27 • John Whitaker

July 2025

The Legacy of Srebrenica

How a survivor of the massacre has navigated life in the dysfunctional new Bosnia.

Jul 11, 2025 • John Whitaker

September 2024

The Conservatives of Conscience, 2024

As in 2020, hundreds of prominent Republicans are endorsing the Democratic candidate for President, an unprecedented effort to convey the existential…

Sep 12, 2024 • John Whitaker

August 2024

The Passion of Mayor Pete

The failure of progressives to rally around the young candidate in 2020 continues to haunt some Americans as a historic missed opportunity.

Aug 6, 2024 • John Whitaker

December 2021

Trump's Next Coup Has Already Begun

Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic, introduces January's cover story, another must-read from Barton Gellman: Stating plainly that one of America’s…

Dec 6, 2021 • John Whitaker

October 2021

Fiddling While Democracy Burns

Don't miss this must-read from Princeton historian Sean Wilentz. May Senator Joe Manchin absorb it on his house-yacht Almost Heaven, and consult his…

Oct 21, 2021 • John Whitaker

February 2021

“The Genie Is Out Of The Bottle”: A Warning From A Survivor Of The Bosnian War

Mirsada Burić ran her way out of a civil war. She was twenty-two years old and living in Sarajevo when, in 1992, she was chosen to represent Bosnia and…

Feb 1, 2021 • John Whitaker

October 2020

The Conservatives of Conscience

In the tradition of leaders across history who stood up for truth amid the fog of tribalism—and who refused to be complicit in the face of evil—hundreds…

Oct 7, 2020 • John Whitaker

January 2020

Antidotes to the Madness

Like a children's clown who proves to be a convicted pedophile, a news channel that turns out to be poisonous propaganda can leave anyone looking for…

Jan 9, 2020 • John Whitaker

To Galvanize, Not Polarize

2019 highlight: Pete Buttigieg greets supporters at a rally in Brooklyn on June 28th—fifty years to the day since the Stonewall Riots launched the…

Jan 2, 2020 • John Whitaker

September 2019

Standing Up for What's Right

It is refreshing when relatives of people who have done immense damage to our world—undermining truth and science, spreading fear and division…

Sep 27, 2019 • John Whitaker

June 2019

I Am a Carbon Abolitionist. Are You?

This excellent piece by economist Eric Beinhocker radiates moral clarity: History tells us that mass social movements always have a moral argument at…

Jun 28, 2019 • John Whitaker