ReImagining Liberty Podcast
1) 089: 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 every...Show More
2) 088: 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,...Show More
3) 087: 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 e...Show More
4) 086: Reclaiming the Internet (w/ Mike Masnick)
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 of...Show More
5) 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 criti...Show More
6) 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 m...Show More
7) 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, and...Show More
8) Why do Trumpists talk so much about democracy if they want to destroy it? (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 ...Show More
9) Forging an Opposition to Trump (w/ Adam Gurri)
The first few months of the Trump administration have proven not just how willing much of America was to embrace and celebrate fascism, but how crucial careful, clear-eye, and thoughtful reporting and...Show More
10) The Crank Theory of Everything (w/ Alysia Ames)
As we've talked about a fair amount on the show, gender is at the center of the ideological clashes defining our political moment. Trumpism is, at its heart, a misogynistic movement, and the fractious...Show More