Editor's Notes: They Hate Us For Our Freedoms
The existence and idea of freedom and cosmopolitan diversity is an existential threat to authoritarians big and small.
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Our team interviews experts, journalists, politicians, and more, in order to shed light on the current crisis, history, and the liberal project.
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SCOTUS, the Fourth Amendment, and the Resistance (Half the Answer #63, with Chris Geidner)
Trent and Caitlin talk to Chris Geidner of Law Dork about the absolute deluge of legal news that seems to
What Is Personalism? (Neon Liberalism #62, with Xavier Márquez)
Samantha and guest Professor Xavier Márquez talk the nature of non-democratic politics, and why the concept of "personalism&
ICE Flights and Accountability in Journalism (Half the Answer #62, with Gillian Brockell)
Caitlin and Trent talk with journalist Gillian Brockell about her work tracking the flights and airline companies that move people
The State of the Resistance (Neon Liberalism #61, with Omar Wasow)
Samantha interviews Professor Omar Wasow, challenging him to reflect on the first year of the second Trump administration. What forms
The Year We Lost Everything: Appraising 2025 and Fighting Back in 2026 (Half the Answer #61, with Evan Urquhart)
Trent and Caitlin ask Evan Urquhart about his 2025 wrap up piece on Assigned Media: "The Year We Lost
2025's Word of the Year (Half the Answer #60, with Savi Namboodiripad and Daniel Midgley)
Caitlin and Trent chat with linguistics scholars Savi Namboodiripad and Daniel Midgley on what word most exemplifies 2025. Was it
Minneapolis Under Siege (Neon Liberalism #60, with Will Stancil)
Samantha and guest Will Stancil talk the murder of Renée Good and the Trump administration's larger assault on
Understanding Stephen Miller (Half the Answer #59, with Greg Sargent)
Trent and Caitlin catch up with Greg Sargent from The New Republic about his recent piece exploring the family history
The U.S. in Venezuela: The International Community and the Donroe Doctrine (Half the Answer #58, with Mark Copelovitch)
Caitlin and Trent speak with Mark Copelovitch, a political science professor from University of Wisconsin–Madison. They discuss the problem
Venezuela and the State of American Strategy (Neon Liberalism #59, with Giselle Donnelly)
Join Samantha and Giselle Donnelly, foreign policy analyst and American Enterprise Institute alumna, as they discuss the recent attack on
The U.S. in Venezuela: Why Is Corporate Media Being So Weird? (Half the Answer #57, with Marisa Kabas)
Trent and Caitlin check in with The Handbasket’s Marisa Kabas about the year that has been the first week