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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…
9 months, 3 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 …
10 months, 1 week 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 …
10 months, 2 weeks 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 betwe…
10 months, 4 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 …
11 months 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…
11 months, 1 week 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 rig…
1 year 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. …
1 year, 1 month 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 p…
1 year, 2 months ago
064: How Much Politics is Enough? (w/ Kevin J. Elliot)
Unless you're an early access supporter of the show, this is the last episode you'll hear before the presidential election, which will profoundly sha…
1 year, 2 months ago