Latest Episodes

Finding Meaning In Liberalism (w/ Akiva Malamet)
Today’s conversation is a companion to our prior episode. I’m joined again by Akiva Malamet, managing editor of The UnPopulist.Last time we talked about...

Is There a Place for Identity Politics? (w/ Akiva Malamet)
It seems like everyone has an opinion about identity politics, but far fewer people have a clear definition of it. This is a problem,...

How Corporations Govern (w/ Alexei Marcoux)
Governments rule our lives, but quite a lot of us believe corporations do as well. And just like we can ask questions about how...

When You Think Your God Wants You to Be an Authoritarian (w/ Kevin Vallier)
People have all kinds of reasons, none of them good, for opposing liberalism. Recently, among intellectuals on the right, we've seen the reemergence of...

Who's Afraid of Cultural Marxism? (with Ian Bennett)
One of the earliest episode of this show was a conversation with my friend Ian Bennett, of the Epoch Philosophy YouTube channel, about Marxism....

The Liberal Virtues (w/ Peter Boettke)
In a series of essays on my website, I’ve been setting out the case goodwill and what I call sympathetic joy within the liberal...