The New Liberal Podcast

Welcome to the first episode in the Neoliberal Podcast's new series on Effective Altruism, the movement that tries to do the most good possible for the world. Jeremiah welcomes Lewis Bollard to the show to talk about animal welfare as an EA topic. Why should people care about the suffering of animals vs the suffering of people? How bad are conditions really in the factory farms that supply most of the meat we eat? Which methods are the most cost-effective ways to help reduce animal suffering? We dive into why many effective altruists are working in this space and what they're doing to help farm animals around the world. Suggested Reading: Farm Animal Welfare Newsletter - https://www.openphilanthropy.org/content-type/farm-animal-welfare-newsletters/ Eating Animals - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_Animals 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@neoliberalproject.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject Join a local chapter at https://neoliberalproject.org/join

Jeremiah is joined by Ben Ritz to debate the politics and policy behind Congress's recent slew of big bills - the CHIPS Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the PACT Act. Will the IRA actually reduce inflation? Did Chuck Schumer pull a fast one on Mitch McConnell? Is the CHIPS Act as good as its proponents claim it is, or as bad as its detractors say? We discuss all this and more! 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@neoliberalproject.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject Join a local chapter at https://neoliberalproject.org/join

Argentinian economics blogger and 2022's Chief Neoliberal Shill, Maia Mindel joins the show to discuss Argentina's economy. We talk about Argentina's history, why Argentina continually struggles with high inflation, defaults, and other economic disasters, and what policies could help bring them out of it. We also talk about Econ Twitter and whether or not social media conversations that take place there matter for the real world. Follow: https://twitter.com/MaiaMindel Blog: https://someunpleasant.substack.com/ 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@neoliberalproject.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject Join a local chapter at https://neoliberalproject.org/join

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, classic literature, science fiction and more, it's all here. Jeremiah covers books on immigration, housing, the history of disease, venture capital, war, election modeling and storytelling, to bring you the best things he's read this year. Links to relevant podcasts on books in this episode: Strength in Numbers - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-past-and-future-of-polling-ft-g-elliott-morris/id1390384827?i=1000569871956 Arbitrary Lines - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-arbitrary-lines-of-zoning-ft-m-nolan-gray/id1390384827?i=1000566786555 Streets of Gold - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/streets-of-gold-ft-leah-boustan-ran-abramitzky/id1390384827?i=1000563792744 Why We Fight - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-we-fight-ft-chris-blattman/id1390384827?i=1000558708278 Fixer Upper - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fixing-americas-housing-ft-jenny-schuetz/id1390384827?i=1000551981593 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@neoliberalproject.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject Join a local chapter at https://neoliberalproject.org/join

How wrong were the polls really in 2016 and 2020, and can we trust them in the current election cycle? Data journalist G Elliott Morris joins the show to discuss his new book 'Strength in Numbers' and discuss the state of the polling industry. We talk about the philosophical case for why polling is important, the history of polls getting things wrong, polling misses in recent elections, and how election modelers and pollsters are trying to correct for those misses. Further reading: A Troubled Birth, Susan Herbst - https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo115836821.html https://gelliottmorris.substack.com/ 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@neoliberalproject.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject Join a local chapter at https://neoliberalproject.org/join

Left-leaning housing activists often discuss public housing as a solution to the housing shortage, but is this a good idea? Jeremiah and public housing advocate Paul Williams debate the role public housing should play in our response to the housing crisis. Does public housing have advantages over private housing? Is public housing usually lower quality than market-rate housing, and if so who's to blame? Can we build public housing in a cost-effective way? Are subsidies for private housing preferable if we want to help low income people? We discuss all this and more! Further reading: Modern Housing for America - https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo3636758.html 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@neoliberalproject.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject Join a local chapter at https://neoliberalproject.org/join

With tensions rising between liberal democracies and authoritarian regimes around the world, many Americans are looking to Congress to see how America can keep its technological and innovation edge. Rep. Ami Bera joins the podcast to talk about the COMPETES Act and USICA, two bills aiming to do just that. What's in these bills? Are they too bloated for their own good? Will they help the US compete with China? We discuss all this and more with Rep. Bera as COMPETES makes it way through the conference committee and into law. 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@neoliberalproject.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject Join a local chapter at https://neoliberalproject.org/join

Comedy has gotten more political than ever in the last 10 years, but has politics made comedy worse? Jeff Maurer, comedian and former writer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, joins the show to discuss political comedy and why it seems to be in decline. What made Jon Stewart's Daily Show special in the early 2000s? Why haven't recent Daily Show clones been able to repeat that success? Is cancel culture a real thing that comedians actually think about? We discuss all this and much more as we try to find out what's going on with political comedy. Check out Jeff's substack - https://imightbewrong.substack.com/ Mentioned in the episode - https://imightbewrong.substack.com/p/is-there-even-the-slightest-chance https://imightbewrong.substack.com/p/why-gutfeld-is-the-highest-rated 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@neoliberalproject.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject Join a local chapter at https://neoliberalproject.org/join

Almost every major city is defined by a set of zoning regulations - a map that says exactly which types of buildings can be built in which areas, and what you're allowed to use those buildings for. M Nolan Gray, a city planner and author of the new book 'Arbitrary Lines', joins the show to discuss zoning. How did our modern system of zoning develop in the 20th century? What impact does zoning have on our cities? Is zoning to blame for the housing affordability crisis? And should we reform or abolish the systems of zoning that are holding us back? Follow Nolan at https://twitter.com/mnolangray 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@neoliberalproject.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject Join a local chapter at https://neoliberalproject.org/join

With the recent wave of shootings across America, what can be done to address the violence? Congressman Brad Schneider joins the podcast to talk about several ways to reduce gun violence and hate crimes. We talk first about his Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act, which aims to prevent white-supremacist violence like the recent shooting in Buffalo, NY. Why is this bill needed, what will it do, and how does Rep. Schneider respond to comparisons to the Patriot Act? We also discuss the ongoing conversations happening around gun control - What types of gun regulations could actually make a difference? Can something actually make it through the Senate? All this and more as we try to unravel one of America's most heated and most pressing political questions. 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@neoliberalproject.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject Join a local chapter at https://neoliberalproject.org/join