About The End of Safety

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one identity, the end of safety.

-James Baldwin, “Faulkner and Desegregation”

My name is Adam Gurri. I founded Liberal Currents and am the Editor-in-Chief there. I am an otherwise boring, ordinary person with a boring, ordinary day job, with a much more interesting wife and two young boys. Writing for pleasure is something I have done for as long as I can remember—not to say that I was able to write very well for most of that period. My own contributions to Liberal Currents, while not unenjoyable to write, are fairly mission driven. I’m proud of what I’ve accomplished there, and even more proud of the other contributors we on the editorial side have supported and published there, but there are many other kinds of writing which I enjoy. Until now I have by and large indulged in writings of this sort at my personal blog.

I started The End of Safety as a challenge to myself: to write something, without any constraint on topic or even genre, every week, all year, and do it in a way that refines my skills as a writer rather than blunts them.

I kept it up for a little over two years. I enjoyed it a great deal, but ultimately felt it was taking too much energy that I ought to invest in editing and writing for Liberal Currents. So now The End of Safety is an archive of that experiment and simply a place to write the occasional piece for pleasure, or that doesn’t fit in with the topics appropriate to Liberal Currents.