Podcast Episodes
Back to Search087: The Values of Radical Liberalism (w/ Cory Massimino)
You can think of this episode as kind of a soft reboot of ReImagining Liberty. Or a back-to-basics. This is a show about politics, but it's a politics grounded in a particular set of values and a par…
Published on 8 hours ago
086: Podcasting's Political Power (w/ Landry Ayres)
Today's episode gets a bit meta. I've done something like ninety ReImagining Liberty shows, and hundreds more on other podcasts, but I've never done one on the place of podcasting itself in the polit…
Published on 1 week, 4 days ago
085: AI, Cultural Tools, and Pluralism (w/ Ted Underwood)
We sometimes talk about technology on ReImagining Liberty, in the context of how it interacts with a liberal society, or how technology can help us defend and advance liberal. The big technology ever…
Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago
084: Liberalism's Radical Future (w/ Andy Craig)
It's difficult to be optimistic about liberalism's future. Certainly in the short to medium term. We're in an acute period of democratic backsliding and authoritarian ascendency. The opposition party…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
083: Classical Liberalism and Michel Foucault (w/ Mark Pennington)
Liberals, particularly classical liberals and libertarians, have too narrow a view of power. They focus on government force, or the threat of government force, and ignore all the other ways power is …
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
082: Reclaiming the Internet (w/ Mike Masnick)
Episode 86
What's happened to Twitter, or now X, is the clearest example of why it's actually not great that so much of our digital communication is controlled by just a few firms and, through them, the whims o…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
081: How Trump is Using the Surveillance State Against Us (w/ Patrick G. Eddington)
The government's power to see is its power to oppress. The more the state knows about us, the more levers it has to control us. Understanding that connection, its history and its application, is crit…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
080: Liberty Means Taking Equality Seriously (w/ Jonathan Blanks)
Equality is central to the liberal project. Thomas Jefferson failed, dramatically and unforgivably, to live up to this ideal, but he stated in correctly when, in a letter, he wrote that "the mass of …
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
079: What the Right Gets Wrong About Men (w/ Toby Buckle)
The Trumpist right has a very clear picture of what they imagine masculinity to be, and are quite upset that it's not a picture all men find all that appealing. It's one of violence, belligerence, an…
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
078: Why the Far-Right Pretends to Like Democracy (w/ Zack Beauchamp)
The authoritarian right loves to talk about how they're upholding democracy. Trump didn't lose the 2020 election, because if he had, democracy would've been against him. So instead it was stolen from…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago