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073: Conservatism Falsely Promises Certainty (w/ Matthew McManus)
The right-wing ideologies we see most active in the world right now aren't intellectual by any stretch of the imagination. But there is a rich tradition of conservative political and social philosoph…
Published on 7 months ago
072: Ethics for Troubled Political Times (w/ Seth Zuihō Segall)
How we navigate the new political environment the voters thrust upon on, and the new regime that seeks to tear up the very foundations of our liberal society, is a matter of ethics. And ethics is big…
Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago
071: Markets are Good for More than Wealth (w/ Tom Palmer)
We talk a lot on this show about the benefits of free and open markets and, given the growing hostility to economic freedom, not just from the Trump administration, but from populist governments arou…
Published on 8 months ago
070: How Right-Wing Influencers Took Over Politics (w/ Renée DiResta)
The information environment in which Americans form and discuss their political views has gotten weird. Walter Cronkite is gone. The editorial pages of the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall S…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
Bonus Episode: How Buddhist Insights Strengthen Liberalism
Last fall, I had the extraordinary opportunity to travel to Delhi, India, to give a talk to young Indian liberals. The topic was the connection between Buddhist philosophy and liberalism. If you’re a…
Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago
069: Status Anxiety, the Attention Economy, and the Appeal of Trump (w/ Alan Elrod)
The rise of Trump is, in many ways, a story about status. Plenty of Americans feel like their relative status has fallen in recent decades, and they believe Trump, both as an embodiment of their iden…
Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago
068: Navigating the Chaos of Trump's Second Term (w/ Anthony L. Fisher)
In this conversation, Aaron Ross Powell and Anthony L. Fisher (Senior Editor at MSNBC Daily) discuss the political landscape following Trump's second inauguration, focusing on the rapid changes in go…
Published on 9 months ago
067: Illiberalism is a Story of Gender (w/ Samantha Hancox-Li)
We've talked a lot about gender on this show, in the context of transgender rights, the way declining relative status drives men to the political right, and the broader role gender plays in the polit…
Published on 9 months, 4 weeks ago
066: What Do We Do Now? An Election Postmortem (w/ Walter Olson)
For this first episode to be recorded after the results of the presidential election, I've brought on my friend and former colleague Walter Olson. Walter is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a…
Published on 11 months ago
065: "Liberal" Socialism? (w/ Matthew McManus)
Today's episode was recorded a few weeks before the results of the November presidential election, and before an unrelated change I've made to this podcast. So before we jump into my conversation wit…
Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago