Return of the White Man's Burden
Just as in a previous age of colonialism, today's neo-imperialists justify themselves in terms of "uplifting" inferior foreign peoples.
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The Culture War Eats Foreign Policy (Neon Liberalism #56, with Joe Stieb)
Join Samantha and guest Joe Stieb, assistant professor at UNC Chapel Hill, as they talk about Donald Trump's
Marriage, Misogyny, and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Right Is Offering a Morally Barren Vision of the Family
Liberals cannot allow the right to monopolize the discourse on virtue and the good life or they will cede space to their rigid and hierarchical visions.
They Were All Our Ancestors
Nationalism chooses sides in the most awful family drama of all time. It sides with the evildoers, and never with their victims, and teaches you to do the same.
Trump's War on Christmas Is a War on Liberalism
After decades of make-believe, the Trump administration is promising an actual war on Christmas that would traumatize religious communities with armed state power.
Touring America with Border Patrol and ICE (Half the Answer #54, with Amanda Moore)
Trent and Caitlin catch up with journalist Amanda Moore to hear about her tour of American cities that have been
Ezra Klein, Self-Harm, and Liberal Perfectionism
From the beginning, liberals have felt the need to promote the development and flourishing of human nature in light of the good even if they disagreed about what it might be.
Sovereignty for Me, None for Thee
Donald Trump's 2025 National Security Strategy reveals a radical blood-and-soil conception of national strategy based on maintaining white patriarchal Christian domination at home and abroad.
Politics As Culture (Neon Liberalism #55, with W. David Marx)
Has culture stagnated in the 21st century? Do the last twenty-five years feel like a blur? What can politics learn
American Freakshow: Our Reality TV-Driven Media Is Killing Our Democracy
The lurid details of Olivia Nuzzi's transgressions and the popularity of "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" derive from the same culture of voyeurism.
Sick in America: Is Everyone Else Lying to You? (Half the Answer #53, with Jonathan Howard)
Caitlin and Trent talk with Jonathan Howard, a neurologist, psychiatrist, and author of Everyone Else Is Lying to You and
No Ordinary Time
Eleanor Roosevelt remains a striking example of the struggle against authoritarianism in dark times.