The New Liberal Podcast

Will Marshall is the president and founder of PPI, and he joins the show this week to discuss immigration policy. We discuss how we approach immigration from different angles, and try to find how sensible liberals can find common ground to make immigration reform happen. To make sure you hear every episode, join our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/neoliberalpodcast. Patrons get access to exclusive bonus episodes, our sticker-of-the-month club, and our insider Slack. Become a supporter today! Got questions for the Neoliberal Podcast? Send them to mailbag@cnliberalism.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject Join a local chapter at https://cnliberalism.org/become-a-member/

The holy grail of monetary policy is the 'soft landing' - being able to bring down high inflation without causing a recession. Joseph Politano, author of the substack Apricitas, joins the podcast to discuss whether or not we'll see a soft landing in 2023. We talk about the Fed's history of trying to control inflation, the causes of inflation after the COVID economic shock, and break down exactly what is needed in order for a soft landing to be a possibility. Check out Apricitas - https://www.apricitas.io/ Follow Joey on Twitter - https://twitter.com/JosephPolitano To make sure you hear every episode, join our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/neoliberalpodcast. Patrons get access to exclusive bonus episodes, our sticker-of-the-month club, and our insider Slack. Become a supporter today! Got questions for the Neoliberal Podcast? Send them to mailbag@cnliberalism.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject Join a local chapter at https://cnliberalism.org/become-a-member/

Almost one year into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, what is the current state of the war? And where is the conflict happen? Oz Katerji is a war correspondent and joins the show to discuss his experiences in Ukraine. We talk about what he saw on the ground there, why so many people got the invasion wrong, how OSINT is revolutionizing journalism, and what the future holds for Ukraine. Follow Oz: https://twitter.com/OzKaterji To make sure you hear every episode, join our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/neoliberalpodcast. Patrons get access to exclusive bonus episodes, our sticker-of-the-month club, and our insider Slack. Become a supporter today! Got questions for the Neoliberal Podcast? Send them to mailbag@cnliberalism.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject Join a local chapter at https://cnliberalism.org/become-a-member/

Jeremiah recaps the best books from 2022. From those books covered on the podcast to the more obscure finds, from fiction to non-fiction, including biographies, academic works, humor, political science, science fiction and more, it's all here as we recap the best books of the year. Recommended listening: Best Books of 2022, Part One - https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ESEBmWWlyUhI7d4SgyEaw Interview with Francis Fukuyama - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-end-of-history-ft-francis-fukuyama/id1390384827?i=1000590281758 Interview with Richard Reeves - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-gone-wrong-with-boys-and-men-ft-richard-reeves/id1390384827?i=1000583029300 Interview with Brad DeLong - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/slouching-towards-utopia-ft-brad-delong/id1390384827?i=1000578720797 To make sure you hear every episode, join our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/neoliberalpodcast. Patrons get access to exclusive bonus episodes, our sticker-of-the-month club, and our insider Slack. Become a supporter today! Got questions for the Neoliberal Podcast? Send them to mailbag@cnliberalism.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject Join a local chapter at https://cnliberalism.org/become-a-member/

How successful was China's 'Zero COVID' policy really? And what does it mean that the Chinese Communist Party has now abandoned it and COVID is spreading throughout the country? James Palmer of Foreign Policy joins the podcast to discuss COVID in China, the CCP's response, and what this means for more than one billion Chinese people. We talk about how zero COVID worked, why people eventually began to protest it nationwide, how bad things really are in China right now, and how this impacts Xi Jinping's future. Recommended resources: China Brief - https://foreignpolicy.com/category/china-brief/ Sinocism - https://sinocism.com/ China Media Project - https://chinamediaproject.org/ Sixth Tone - https://www.sixthtone.com/ To make sure you hear every episode, join our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/neoliberalpodcast. Patrons get access to exclusive bonus episodes, our sticker-of-the-month club, and our insider Slack. Become a supporter today! Got questions for the Neoliberal Podcast? Send them to mailbag@cnliberalism.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject Join a local chapter at https://cnliberalism.org/become-a-member/

Explore the addictive nature of outrage and political hobbyism on social media. Discuss the weaponization of social media and the lack of gatekeepers. Examine the dominance of negative and divisive content online. Explore the fixation on small differences between Millennials and Gen Z. Share personal experiences of going viral and facing both praise and backlash. Discuss the hypersexualized portrayal of women in comic book art. Critique specific controversial tweets and discuss online controversies.

How robust is liberal democracy worldwide? Why do authoritarian countries like China, Iran and Russia seem to be struggling right now? How safe is democracy in the developed world? Francis Fukuyama joins the podcast to discuss how the ideas from his book 'The End of History' apply to what we're seeing in geopolitics today. We discuss what capital-H History is really about, whether neoliberalism is to blame for the rise of authoritarianism in recent decades, the contradictions that give strong states inherent weaknesses, and what he's watching for to see if the world might experience another wave of democratization. Recommended Reading: American Purpose - https://www.americanpurpose.com/ Persuasion - https://www.persuasion.community/ The UnPopulist - https://www.theunpopulist.net/ Frankly Fukuyama - https://www.americanpurpose.com/topics/frankly-fukuyama/ To make sure you hear every episode, join our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/neoliberalproject. Patrons get access to exclusive bonus episodes, our sticker-of-the-month club, and our insider Slack. Become a supporter today! Got questions for the Neoliberal Podcast? Send them to mailbag@cnliberalism.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject Join a local chapter at https://cnliberalism.org/become-a-member/

The fourth episode in our series on Effective Altruism focuses on fighting malaria. Jeremiah is joined by Rob Mather, founder and CEO of the Against Malaria Foundation. They discuss why bed nets are such an effective intervention for stopping the spread of malaria, AMF's approach to data and how we can prove our dollars are making a difference, and the future of malaria as we race to develop new technologies like gene-edited mosquitos and vaccines. Recommended resources: http://againstmalaria.org/ To make sure you hear every episode, join our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/neoliberalproject. Patrons get access to exclusive bonus episodes, our sticker-of-the-month club, and our insider Slack. Become a supporter today! Got questions for the Neoliberal Podcast? Send them to mailbag@cnliberalism.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject Join a local chapter at https://cnliberalism.org/become-a-member/

Coming out of the 2022 midterm elections, what's going to happen as Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump both prepare to run for president in 2024? Tim Miller of The Bulwark joins the podcast to discuss this upcoming GOP civil war. What are the issues where Trump and DeSantis might attack each other? Who are the groups they have to appeal to? What do the midterm results mean for the future of Trump-style politics? Recommended reading: Why We Did It - https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Did-Travelogue-Republican/dp/0063161478 The Triad - https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/ Weapons of Mass Delusion - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/688795/weapons-of-mass-delusion-by-robert-draper/ The Neoliberal Subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/ To make sure you hear every episode, join our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/neoliberalproject. Patrons get access to exclusive bonus episodes, our sticker-of-the-month club, and our insider Slack. Become a supporter today! Got questions for the Neoliberal Podcast? Send them to mailbag@cnliberalism.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject Join a local chapter at https://cnliberalism.org/become-a-member/

Elon Musk has owned Twitter for less than a month, and the company is already in chaos. Is Elon crazy, or crazy like a fox? Joining the show to discuss is Mike Masnick, founder of Techdirt. Jeremiah and Mike discuss why content moderation is so difficult at scale, debate whether Mastodon can be a real Twitter replacement, discuss Elon's erratic and dumb moves since buying Twitter, as they try to figure out whether or not Twitter might die. Recommended sources: Techdirt and the Techdirt Podcast - https://www.techdirt.com/edition/podcast/ Money Stuff - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthew-s-levine Chancery Daily - https://www.chancerydaily.com/ Copia Gaming - https://copia.is/gaming/ To make sure you hear every episode, join our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/neoliberalproject. Patrons get access to exclusive bonus episodes, our sticker-of-the-month club, and our insider Slack. Become a supporter today! Got questions for the Neoliberal Podcast? Send them to mailbag@cnliberalism.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject Join a local chapter at https://cnliberalism.org/become-a-member/