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What if democracy’s crisis has less to do with facts than with friendship? IHS Senior Program Manager Michael Brodrick talks with Roger Berkowitz, founder and academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College,…
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What if democracy’s crisis has less to do with facts than with friendship? IHS Senior Program Manager Michael Brodrick talks with Roger Berkowitz, founder and academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College,…
When every headline feels like bad news, dystopian fiction can offer catharsis, a warning, or a little of both. Host Aaron Ross Powell welcomes back Sarah Skwire, Senior Program Officer at Liberty Fund and a Liberalism.org Fellow, to talk about what…
Every political alliance asks its members to set some disagreements aside, but what happens to our ideas when we stop raising them? Host Aaron Ross Powell talks with Janet Bufton, a Contributing Fellow at Liberalism.org and co-founder of the…
Young men are drifting right and young women are drifting left, but the more revealing divide may be who is sitting in the college classroom and who isn't. Host Aaron Ross Powell talks with Josh Zingher, associate professor of political science at…
In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln endorsed the Corwin Amendment, which would have permanently barred the federal government from interfering with slavery in the states where it already existed; had it been ratified, that would be the…
Most of us assume the rules governing American healthcare were written for our safety — and that the system, whatever its flaws, basically works. In this episode, host Aaron Ross Powell talks with Lauren K. Hall, professor of political science and…
Most conservatives don't see themselves as opponents of democracy — they see a democracy that has drifted from the values that make it legitimate. On this episode, Aaron Ross Powell talks with Scott Warren of the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins…
Institutions of bigotry, racism, and social control were supposed to be decades into retreat. Instead they have come roaring back from the top-down. In this special joint release of The Liberalism.org Show and The UnPopulist 's Zooming In, recorded…
Why does every new technology spark the same recurring fight, with utopian boosters on one side and doomers on the other, and what would a more productive conversation look like? On this episode (recorded live at the Institute for Humane Studies’…
It started with a blog post. When the Trump administration invoked emergency powers to impose sweeping tariffs, law professor Ilya Somin suggested in passing that someone ought to challenge it in court — and then found himself co-counsel in the case…
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