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Liberal Virtues and Values
Liberalism, Heal Thyself
Any path forward for the movement starts with hard questions.
Jul 14
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Marlene Laruelle
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Deirdre McCloskey on What Really Caused the Industrial Revolution
Yascha Mounk and Deirdre McCloskey discuss why ideas, not capital accumulation, made the modern world rich.
Jul 11
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Yascha Mounk
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A Guide to a Muscular Liberalism
Liberals can articulate their values without trampling on rights.
Jul 10
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Roger Partridge
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Ivan Krastev on Why America Has Lost Faith in Itself
Yascha Mounk and Ivan Krastev examine what the country’s founding ideals mean on its 250th anniversary.
Jul 4
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Yascha Mounk
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Welcome to the Postmodern Presidency
Before there was Trump, there was French theory.
Jun 3
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Damon Linker
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Colleges, Maybe Try Teaching!
Academia has become unrooted from pedagogy.
May 7
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William Deresiewicz
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The Unexpected Persistence of John Rawls
We walk in the garden of his ideas.
Feb 10
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Joseph Heath
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Rebecca Goldstein on Why Humans Need to Matter
Yascha Mounk and Rebecca Goldstein debate whether our desperate need for significance is a flaw we should overcome—or an essential part of human…
Jan 13
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Yascha Mounk
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Against Strong Gods
Historical goldfishishness is letting us drift to the false security of a closed society.
Sep 22, 2025
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Sam Kahn
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Cass Sunstein on Defending Liberalism
Yascha Mounk and Cass Sunstein discuss liberalism's critics on the right and left.
Sep 2, 2025
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Yascha Mounk
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David Enoch on Certainty and Compromise
Yascha Mounk and David Enoch discuss how to defend liberalism.
Aug 13, 2025
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Yascha Mounk
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