Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Midterm Elections: A Philosophical Postmortem
In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss the midterm elections and offer a philosophical analysis of the state of Ameri…
3 years, 3 months ago
What Does Xi Jinping’s China Want?
What makes China tick? What animates the ruling Communist Party? What does Xi Jinping’s third term as “paramount” leader portend? Elan Journo intervi…
3 years, 3 months ago
Inviting in the Vandals: The Just Stop Oil Protests
In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the recent attacks conducted by the Just Stop Oil activists and offer…
3 years, 3 months ago
Dismantling the ‘Neoliberalism’ Straw Man
In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the attacks on "neoliberalism," an alleged ideology that critics blam…
3 years, 3 months ago
Q&A on Free Will vs. Determinism with Ben Bayer and Mike Mazza
In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer, Mike Mazza and Sam Weaver address questions about free will submitted by the podcast’s audience. Among …
3 years, 4 months ago
What Students Need to Find Literature Fascinating
Enrollment in college English departments is declining, with literature concentrations experiencing a particularly precipitous drop in student intere…
3 years, 4 months ago
What Liberalism and Its Discontents Gets So Wrong
In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss Liberalism and Its Discontents, a recent book by the well-known polit…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Protests in Russia and Iran
In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the recent protests against the authoritarian regimes of Iran and Russi…
3 years, 4 months ago
Why MacAskill Is Wrong about What We Owe the Future
In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer, Don Watkins, and Mike Mazza discuss Oxford philosophy professor William MacAskill’s new book, What We O…
3 years, 4 months ago
Political Battles Over Education
In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Sam Weaver discuss political controversies that have erupted in the last two years around the disc…
3 years, 5 months ago