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The Furious Minds of the MAGA Right (with Laura Field)
Season 1 Episode 52
Join Samantha and guest Laura Field, author of the new book *Furious Minds*, as they discuss how ideas have driven history, from John Maynard Keynes …
10 months, 1 week ago
The Meme Politics of "Hearts of Iron"
Season 1 Episode 51
Join host Samantha Hancox-Li as she explores the concept of "meme politics," which pervades the current Trump II administration, through the historic…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Radical Liberalism?
Season 1 Episode 50
Join Samantha Hancox-Li and guest Alex Zakaras, author of Freedom for All, as they discuss the idea of liberalism as a radical political project, the…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Liberalism 101: Liberalism Today
Season 1 Episode 49
Join host Samantha Hancox-Li and guest Adam Gurri, founder and editor-in-chief of Liberal Currents, as they discuss the crisis—the malaise—that has b…
11 months ago
Liberalism 101: Liberalism and Enlightenment
Season 1 Episode 48
Are you sad? Lonely? Can't get a girlfriend? The reactionary right promises a total philosophy of life—not just a politics, but a comprehensive way o…
11 months, 1 week ago
Liberalism 101: Liberalism and Limited Government
Season 1 Episode 47
If you remember anything from high school civics, it's the phrases "separation of powers" and "checks and balances." That separation and those checks…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Liberalism 101: Liberalism and Toleration
Season 1 Episode 46
Samantha and Lucian Staiano-Daniels, author of "The War People," discuss the connection between liberalism and toleration and the dark history of rel…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Liberalism 101: Liberalism and Prosperity
Season 1 Episode 45
Samantha and fellow Liberal Currents editor Jason Briggeman discuss the economics of liberal democracy, starting from the basic question "why are all…
1 year ago
Why Be a Liberal?
Season 1 Episode 44
Join host Samantha Hancox-Li for a discussion of the difference between liberalism as an assumed default and liberalism as an active project. Even as…
1 year ago
The Future of Feminism
Season 1 Episode 43
There's a lot of gender happening these days—and feminism, the political movement that ought to be at the forefront of responding to the MAGA backlas…
1 year ago