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Liberalism in Question | CIS — 95 episodes

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1

Culture, Multiculturalism and Immigration | Henry Ergas AO

2

What Would Adam Smith Think of Australia? | Joseph Healy

3

What are our shared values? | Rachael Kohn

4

A Nation of Strangers: How a civic vacuum enabled antisemitism | Alex McDermott

5

Is Islam Compatible with Classical Liberalism? Part 2 with Dr. Mark Durie

6

Is Islam Compatible with Classical Liberalism? Part 1 with Dr. Samir Mahmoud

7

The Temptations of Unfreedom Revisited | Dr Oliver Hartwich

8

What classical liberals get wrong about the rest of the World | Alexandre Lefebvre

9

Is Australia Doomed? | Marian L. Tupy

10

The Australian Dream is Dead | Parnell Palme McGuinness

11

Education Reform in Australia | Jennifer Buckingham

12

Australia's Liberal Odyssey: Tracing Freedom's Path | Dr Greg Melleuish

13

A Case for Helpful Government Intervention | Emma Dawson

14

Indigenous Expectations are Skewed | Senator Kerrynne Liddle

15

"People are just sick of it" | Alexander Downer

16

A Short History of Liberalism in the Middle East | Joshua Landis

17

Trump and the red wave | Dave Rubin

18

The Tradition of Liberty | Senator James Paterson

19

The Tension Between Classical Liberalism and Conservatism | Gray Connolly

20

Rebuilding the Open Society | Roger Partridge

21

Peter Costello on the Legacy of Reform and the Road Ahead

22

The Erosion of Australian Values | Mark Leach

23

Democracy’s Silent Guardian: Education | Trisha Jha

24

The Hidden Cost of Big Government | Robert Carling

25

National Identity vs Moral Diversity: Can Australia Hold Together? | Peter Kurti & Jude Blik

26

The Freedom Trap: The Chains of Choice | Priyan Max Jeganathan

27

Grounded Liberty: Liberalism’s Moral Roots | Michael Bird

28

The science of learning will set students free | Glenn Fahey

29

In Defence of Jordan Peterson | Rohan McHugh

30

Liberalism in the Shadows: The Intellectual Dark Web and the Struggle for Free Thought | Jamie Q. Roberts

31

Faith and Freedom: Evangelical Christianity in Liberal Australia | Stuart Piggin

32

The Economic Philosophy of Liberalism | Eamonn Butler

33

Trump’s Tariffs Hurt Consumers | Johan Norberg

34

The History of Liberalism (Part 2) | Simon Heffer

35

The History of Liberalism (Part 1) | Simon Heffer

36

Liberalism and Education | Andrew Norton

37

Trump, TikTok, and the new face of global power | Senator James Paterson & Emilie Dye

38

Navigating the Ethics of Colonial History | Nigel Biggar

39

The Sexual Revolution & the Role of Families| Mary Eberstadt

40

The Tension Between Freedom, Liberty, and Responsibility | David Kinley

41

Power of Individualism | Ron Manners

42

North Korea: The Origins of Its Unique Family Dictatorship | Nicholas Eberstadt

43

From Conversion to Classical Liberalism: The Influence of Ludwig von Mises | Dr. Jonathan Cole

44

The History of Liberalism in Iran | Behnam Ben Taleblu

45

The Strange, Recent But Understandable Triumph of Liberalism in Australia | Bob Catley

46

Jimmy Lai’s Son Speaks Out | Sebastian Lai & Caoilfhionn Gallagher

47

Why the 2023 Voice Referendum Failed | Damian Freeman

48

American Liberalism and the Middle East | Bret Stephens

49

Is the market more efficient than the government? | Robert Carling

50

Being a Rational Optimist in a Woke World | Matthew Ridley

51

Can Humanity Sustain Its Growth? | Marian Tupy

52

The Western World at a Tipping Point | Sherelle Jacobs

53

Will AI Destroy us all? | Larry Marshall

54

How Woke Won | Joanna Williams

55

Restart dialogue between faith and reason | David de Carvalho

56

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price's Insightful Outlook

57

Is liberalism suffocating in the UK? | Fraser Nelson

58

Nukes for the next generation | William Shackel

59

Battle Between Liberalism vs Nationalism | John Mearsheimer

60

Howardism, ideals and power | Andrew Blyth

61

Chaos in society creates freedom | David Hart

62

How Trump killed liberalism | Jason Riley

63

Do groups have rights? | Dr. Joel Harrison

64

Australian laws FAIL to protect freedom | Patrick Parkinson

65

How to Think Like an Economist | Peter Tulip

66

The Voice to Parliament with Professor Duncan Ivison

67

S3E9 | Lorraine Finlay ’human rights that give us our humanity’

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S3E8 | Roslyn Fuller | That’s not democracy, this is democracy!

69

S3E7 | Sabine Beppler-Spahl | Challenges and opportunities for liberalism in Germany

70

S3E6 | Claire Lehmann | Against tribalism. Take an empirical not emotional approach

71

S3E5 | Mike Bird | A theologian who thinks secularism is a particularly good thing

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S3E4 | Steven Schwartz | Liberalism: the winner in the battle of ideas but the loser on the ground

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S3E3 | Emilie Dye | ‘I’m the expert in me’ —the value of individual freedom

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S3E2 | Tom Switzer | The power of choice that makes society better—even if it not appreciated

75

S3E1 | Ruth Richardson | What is needed to revive liberalism? Ideas and a spine!

76

S2E10 | Nick Cater ‘Liberalism needs moral vision not just economics’

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S2E9 | Gordon Menzies ‘Liberalism as fundamentalism?’

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S2E8 | Simon Mordant ‘Why liberalism is essential to the arts’

79

S2E7 | Nyunggai Warren Mundine ‘Liberalism says No to the Voice to Parliament!’

80

S2E6 | Andrew Bragg ‘Liberalism says Yes to the Voice to Parliament!’

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S2E5 | Chandran Kukathas ‘Liberalism is scepticism of power’

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S2E4 | Hannes H. Gissurarson ‘Liberalism needs conservatism too’

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S2E3 | David Kemp ‘Liberalism’s remarkable Australian Story’

84

S2E2 | Simon Cowan ‘Economic liberalism under threat’

85

S2E1 | Henry Ergas ‘The heart of liberalism’

86

S1E10 | Peter Kurti ’Liberalism questioned’

87

S1E9 | Simon Haines ’Liberalism is best understood by studying its origins’

88

S1E8 | Michael Spence ’The university as a crucial institution in the liberal community’

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S1E7 | Parnell McGuinness ’Against simplistic ideology—even liberalism as a simplistic ideology’

90

S1E6 | Glenn Fahey ’Yes, Classical Liberalism is under threat’

91

S1E5 | Tim Wilson ’Why liberalism needs a new social contract to be renewed’

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S1E4 | Stan Grant “We can’t allow our liberalism to be historically blind.”

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S1E3 | Salvatore Babones ’Unashamedly upbeat about liberalism— “More Fukuyama than Fukuyama.”’

94

S1E2 | Ian Harper ’Liberalism—both a prejudice to freedom and a delicate flower’

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S1E1 | John Howard ’Liberalism and the ‘Broad Church.’