A free society is bigger than its politics. It lives in our economics and our courts, but also in our families, our technology, our art, and the ordinary business of living alongside people who see the world differently. On the Liberalism.org Show, Aaron Ross Powell talks with the site's writers and scholars, taking one of their essays as the starting point for a wide-ranging conversation—from tariffs and zoning to science fiction, sitcoms, and mini tacos. Curious, serious, and always circling back to how liberal ideas play out in the life you actually lead.
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A free society is bigger than its politics. It lives in our economics and our courts, but also in our families, our technology, our art, and the ordinary business of living alongside people who see the world differently. On the Liberalism.org Show, Aaron Ross Powell talks with the site's writers and scholars, taking one of their essays as the starting point for a wide-ranging conversation—from tariffs and zoning to science fiction, sitcoms, and mini tacos. Curious, serious, and always circling back to how liberal ideas play out in the life you actually lead.
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August 6, 2026
What Conservatives Actually Believe About Democracy (with Scott Warren and Morgan Ramsey-Elliot)
Most conservatives don't see themselves as opponents of democracy — they see a democracy that has drifted from the values that make it legitimate. On this episode, Aaron Ross Powell talks with Scott Warren of the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins Un...
July 26, 2026
Rebuilding a Liberal Majority (with Jamelle Bouie, David French, and Danielle Allen)
<p>Institutions of bigotry, racism, and social control were supposed to be decades into retreat. Instead they have come roaring back from the top-down. In this special joint release of <i>The </i><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://Liberalism.org" target="_blank"><i>Liberalism.org</i></a><i> Show</i> and <i>The UnPopulist</i>'s Zooming In, recorded live at the Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism's "Liberalism for the 21st Century" conference, host Aaron Ross Powell sits down with New York Times columnists Jamelle Bouie and David French and Harvard political theorist Danielle Allen. They discuss the apparent return of open bigotry and illiberalism to American politics, debate whether it is a Trump-specific phenomenon or a durable coalition that will outlast him, and consider why so much of it is driven from the top rather than by the public.</p><p></p><p><b>Further Reading</b></p><ul><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/J/bo192735333.html" target="_blank">Justice by Means of Democracy</a> — Danielle Allen, University of Chicago Press</li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/david-french" target="_blank">David French's New York Times opinion column</a></li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.nytimes.com/column/jamelle-bouie" target="_blank">Jamelle Bouie's New York Times opinion column</a></li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.theunpopulist.net/podcast" target="_blank">Zooming In at The UnPopulist</a><p></p></li></ul><p><b>More from </b><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://Liberalism.org" target="_blank"><b>Liberalism.org</b></a></p><ul><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.liberalism.org/p/conservative-values-trust-and-the-prospects-for-democratic-renewal" target="_blank">Conservative Values, Trust, and the Prospects for Democratic Renewal</a> — Emily Chamlee-Wright</li></ul>
July 16, 2026
Why We Keep Fighting About New Technology (with Troy Cross and Karim Farhat)
<p>Why does every new technology spark the same recurring fight, with utopian boosters on one side and doomers on the other, and what would a more productive conversation look like? On this episode (recorded live at the Institute for Humane Studies’ Flourishing House at SXSW) host Aaron Ross Powell talks with Troy Cross, Professor of Philosophy at Reed College and a Senior Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute, and Karim Farhat, Assistant Director of the Internet Governance Project at Georgia Tech.</p><p></p><p>They explore why identity and storytelling distort our judgment about new tools, what the Bitcoin energy debates reveal about motivated reasoning, how markets have quietly solved earlier trust problems like online authentication, and why a liberal society in the age of AI has room for both data centers and the Amish family next door.</p><p><br /><b>Further Reading</b></p><ul><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.btcpolicy.org/authors/troy-cross" target="_blank">Troy Cross </a>— Bitcoin Policy Institute</li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.internetgovernance.org/team-members/dr-karim-farhat/" target="_blank">Karim Farhat</a> — Internet Governance Project</li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://c2pa.org/" target="_blank">C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity)</a><p></p></li></ul><p><b>More from </b><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://Liberalism.org" target="_blank"><b>Liberalism.org</b></a></p><ul><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.liberalism.org/p/enshittification-despotification-and-the-open-internet" target="_blank">Enshittification, Despotification, and the Open Internet</a> — Mike Masnick</li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.liberalism.org/p/ai-and-the-first-amendment" target="_blank">AI and the First Amendment</a> — Corbin Barthold</li></ul>
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