The Western Hemisphere After Trump
The aim of neighborly and mutual integration with the Western Hemisphere, including free trade and the free movement of people, is a noble one.
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Democratic Socialism Gets Serious
"The Blueprint" demonstrates how the new generation of democratic socialists are providing real, practical proposals for economic transformation.
Is Liberal Socialism a Contradiction in Terms? (Out of the Jaws #7, with Matthew McManus and Paul Crider)
Are liberalism and socialism completely incompatible? Ryan and Adam talk with University of Michigan lecturer in political science Matthew McManus
A Socialist's Dialogue with Liberalism
Socialist philosopher G. A. Cohen's engagement with the best of the liberal tradition is a model for the future.
Smug Delusions Won't Save Us
Adrian Wooldridge's "The Revolutionary Center" purports to diagnose liberalism's failings but instead merely embodies them.
The Right Wants You Stupid
The eternal quest to preserve the “pleasing illusions” that hold society and its authorities together.
Also a Review of Habermas
Is Habermas a titan of recent philosophy or a stodgy academic lacking a burning political vision?
Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself? (Half the Answer #64, with Matt McManus)
Trent and Caitlin catch up with political science assistant professor Matt McManus. They discuss the narratives surrounding resistance in the
Liberalism or Inertia? Cass Sunstein's "Liberalism: In Defense of Freedom"
Sunstein’s book adopts a small-c conservative defensiveness that belies a now-requisite rejuvenating liberal imagination.
The Utopianism of the Meritocrats
The psychological and historical appeal of meritocracy is inversely proportional to its tenability.
Half the Answer #36: Charlie Kirk and the Roots of the Far Right
Trent and Caitlin talk with political science professor Matt McManus about far-right thinkers and their journey through the past
The Modern Far Right Canon
Modern far right thinkers style themselves as an insurgent movement against power, combining a self-pitying victimhood with exaggerated fantasies of rediscovered manliness.
Rawls in the Streets
Katrina Forrester's In the Shadow of Justice shows the radical potential—and political limitations—of John Rawls' philosophy.