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How Should We Respond to the MAGA Right's Embrace of the Cult of Cruelty? A Conversation With Radley Balko and Charlie Sykes
A combination of appealing to the rank and file's better angles and social ostracism for the pundits glorifying state violence might restore decency in…
Aug 31
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Aaron Ross Powell
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49:30
What Is the Glue Binding the New Right's Disparate Factions? Zack Beauchamp's Conversation with Laura Field
The political theorist says that nationalism and a nostalgia for old gender norms are part of the answer
Aug 27
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Zack Beauchamp
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Trump Is Extorting Universities in the Name of Intellectual Diversity: A Conversation with Michael S. Roth
Yet many who claim to be concerned about academic freedom are choosing silence or appeasement in the face of an authoritarian shakedown
Jul 31
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Berny Belvedere
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40:50
Are Advanced Capitalist Liberal Democracies Victims of Their Own Success? A Conversation with Brink Lindsey
Mass affluence is leading to a crisis of meaning that postliberals are exploiting to knock down liberalism
Jul 27
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Shikha Dalmia
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45:54
Should the Heterodox Academy Prioritize Fighting Trump's Authoritarian Assaults Over Wokeness on Campuses? A Conversation with Cathy Young
The outfit's recent conference revealed a deep divide that needs tackling
Jul 20
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Berny Belvedere
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46:05
How America Created an Enormous and Abusive Surveillance State: A Conversation with Patrick Eddington
Even as this state has grown, the guardrails around it have weakened, giving presidents a dangerous tool to wield for illiberal and undemocratic ends
Jun 12
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Aaron Ross Powell
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30:38
Will Appeals Courts Affirm that Trump Is Abusing His Emergency Power by Imposing Sweeping Tariffs? A Conversation with Ilya Somin
Courts may stop the president this time but Congress also needs to act to stop future abuses
May 31
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Robert Tracinski
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22:40
Postliberals and NatCons See an Opening in Trumpism to Impose Their Respective Agendas: A Conversation with Jerome Copulsky
Both share a critique of liberal individualism but have vastly different ideas of what a religious state ought to look like
May 25
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Berny Belvedere
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42:00
Why DOGE Should Scare Even Advocates of Small Government: A Conversation with Julian Sanchez and Noah Kunin
It is built on lies and lawlessness and is eliminating structures of internal oversight that keep the executive branch honest and under control
May 7
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Aaron Ross Powell
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46:21
Only Moral Leadership Can Stop America From Giving in to Authoritarianism: A Conversation with David French
Trump's lawlessness and corruption is fundamentally changing the country in ways that most Americans do not understand
May 4
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Robert Tracinski
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48:46
Can Trump Really Deport 10 Million People? A Conversation with Dara Lind
Despite his draconian and lawless crackdown on immigrants and their defenders, the number of undocumented might not go down
Apr 26
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Shikha Dalmia
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47:59
Trump Wants to Deny Legal Representation to Opponents He Targets: A Conversation with Walter Olson
He is decimating a core pillar of the Anglo-American judicial tradition: fearless lawyers
Apr 2
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Robert Tracinski
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34:50
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