Liberaland Relaunches on the Web [View all]
It looks like Liberaland has taken off the gloves and decided to become a player among liberal web sites:
A few days ago, we unleashed a new Liberaland. Its a new design, a new interface, a new way of interacting with the best progressive perspective on the web. Its version 2.0 and we hope youre enjoying it.
But Liberaland v.2.0 is much more than a facelift. Its a relaunch, from top to bottom. Its a reflection of the increasingly important role Liberaland plays in the progressive conversation. And its a celebration of the voice that we all of us have in moving society in the most enlightened direction. Because, despite the cacophony of illogic and stasis from the right, we are indeed moving in that direction undeniably, inexorably, and yes, permanently.
For version 2.0, weve done many things to make your time with us more rewarding. Weve reorganized all of our articles, podcasts, and videos thematically, so that if youre scavenging for a hot topic, you can find it. Weve made our interface much more intuitive, to reflect how progressive minds (yes, yours) work. Weve highlighted our best contributors, some of whom have been with us for years, and some of whom have just joined us. Weve made it easy to continue your exploration by including related articles that are actually related to the content youre reading. Weve even made it easy to laugh (or cry, jaggedly), with News Behaving Badly. And so much more.
- We know that the progressive agenda is winning. Everywhere. Taking a broad view of contemporary polity, the vector of real progress writ large and sustained is clear and unequivocal. There are bumps in the road, setbacks, head-scratching reversions to regressive forms of government. There are stretches of time wherein the conservative, counter-humanist voice seems to prevail, and politics seems unable to withstand its current. There is the age-old struggle between faith and reason not a binary struggle, but a chronic one. There is the continued degradation of the planet. All of it. But take a step back, and look at where were headed. Feel, and observe, the way history is tilting. Its blue as the sky. You know it, and we know it too.
- We know that conservatives are driven by fear. Their dread of change, particularly the unswerving, accelerated change of an increasingly globalized and technologically seamless world, informs nearly everything they believe. Theyre afraid that the world has passed them by. Theyre afraid that the white society of their fantasy is turning brown. Theyre afraid that they wont have money when theyre old. Theyre afraid that their job isnt relevant in todays world, and neither is their skill set. And most of all, theyre afraid that the earth is moving under their proverbial feet, and that theyre powerless to stop it. Because stop it they must. But they cant, and they know it.
I like what I see -- particularly well-chosen "Opinion" links, "News Behaving Badly" and Will Durst's clever, snarky podcasts.