Ideology Unbound
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Podcast Overview
<p>Ideology Unbound is a podcast from the Illiberalism Studies Program at George Washington University and hosted by Laura K. Field. We talk about the past and future of ideologies, and about liberalism and its challenges, with thinkers in the United States and around the world.</p>
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March 16, 2026
Ungoverning and the Destruction of of Governmental Capacity
<p>Ideology Unbound is a podcast from the Illiberalism Studies Program at George Washington University and hosted by Laura K. Field. We talk about the past and future of ideologies, and about liberalism and its challenges, with thinkers in the United States and around the world.</p><p>In this episode, <strong>Laura Field </strong>engages with <strong>Russell Muirhead </strong>to discuss his book, Ungoverning: The Politics of Chaos and the Attack on the Administrative State, co-authored with Nancy L. Rosenblum. They explore the evolution of conspiracism in politics, the concept of ungoverning, and the challenges faced by the administrative state. Muirhead emphasizes the importance of governmental capacity, the dangers of personal command over policy-making, and the implications of violence in society. The conversation also touches on the legitimacy of grievances against bureaucracy, the role of cultural recognition, and the need for effective civic education.</p><p></p><p>Get Russell Muirhead's new book, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691250526/ungoverning?srsltid=AfmBOooN81oO5NAiUlq0RC_bIAwLN3RuA1eCuJd4h5Xf1dXXYxqJtOjG">Ungoverning: The Politics of Chaos and the Attack on the Administrative State</a>.</p><p></p>
February 17, 2026
Russia, Liberalism, and the Illiberal Imagination
<p>Ideology Unbound is a podcast from the Illiberalism Studies Program at George Washington University and hosted by Laura K. Field. We talk about the past and future of ideologies, and about liberalism and its challenges, with thinkers in the United States and around the world.</p><p>In this episode, <strong>Laura Field</strong> sits down with <strong>Marlene Laruelle</strong>, a leading scholar of Russian political thought and contemporary illiberalism, to discuss her intellectual journey, her work on Russia’s ideological landscape, and the conceptual foundations of her influential framework of illiberalism. The conversation explores Laruelle's early research in Russian intellectual history; understanding illiberalism not as a regime type but as a coherent political project defined by backlash against lived liberalism and by an alternative vision built around sovereignty, majoritarianism, civilizational geopolitics, social homogeneity, and conservative values; and the complicated relationship between liberalism and illiberalism.</p>
February 4, 2026
Retrieving a Radical Liberalism
<p>Ideology Unbound is a podcast from the Illiberalism Studies Program at George Washington University and hosted by Laura K. Field. We talk about the past and future of ideologies, and about liberalism and its challenges, with thinkers in the United States and around the world.</p><p></p><p>In this episode, <strong>Aaron Irion </strong>engages with political theorist <strong>Matt McManus</strong> to discuss his new book The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism. The conversation examines the intellectual roots of liberal socialism, the project of retrieval that animates McManus’s method, and the contemporary political stakes of revisiting this neglected tradition. McManus outlines the book’s central principles—methodological collectivism paired with normative individualism, a developmental ethic, and a commitment to participatory liberal‑democratic institutions—and explains how these ideas draw on figures as varied as Mary Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill, John Rawls, Karl Marx, Chantal Mouffe, and others.</p><p></p><p>Get Matt McManus's new book <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.routledge.com/The-Political-Theory-of-Liberal-Socialism/McManus/p/book/9781032647234">The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism.</a></p>
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- What is Ideology Unbound?
<p>Ideology Unbound is a podcast from the Illiberalism Studies Program at George Washington University and hosted by Laura K. Field. We talk about the past and future of ideologies, and about liberalism and its challenges, with thinkers in the United States and around the world.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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