Nancy Rosenblum with Joshua Cherniss

In this episode, Juliette Marchant is joined by Joshua Cherniss, Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University, to discuss the political thought of Nancy Rosenblum, the Harvard University Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government emerita. The conversation weaves together Cherniss’s intellectual journey with an account of Rosenblum’s influence as a teacher and mentor, and how her work shaped his approach to political ethics and liberal theory.Together, Cherniss and Marchant explore what makes Rosenblum’s work so influential: her focus on the personal experience of liberalism, her attention to motivationand everyday moral life, and her insistence on grounding political theory in psychological and sociological realism. From pluralism and shifting involvements to neighborly relations and the democracy of everyday life, the episode highlights a vision of liberalism that is lived, complex, and deeply human.Texts Referenced in the Episode:Another Liberalism: Romanticism and the Reconstruction of Liberal Thought - Nancy L. RosenblumGood Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America - Nancy L. RosenblumLiberalism and the Moral Life - Edited by Nancy L. RosenblumLiberalism without Illusions: Essays on Liberal Theory and the Political Vision of Judith N. Shklar - Edited by Bernard YackA Mind and Its Time: The Development of Isaiah Berlin's Political Thought - Joshua L. ChernissLiberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century - Joshua L. Cherniss