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1

The Case for American Power ft. Shadi Hamid

2

What went wrong for Keir Starmer? ft. Claire Ainsley

3

Is the Mississippi Miracle Real? ft. Kelsey Piper

4

The New Liberal Podcast's Best Books of 2026 (Part 1)

5

The Crisis of Liberalism

6

Should libertarians ally with abundance liberals?

7

Why Gen Z Isn't Actually Doomed

8

The Many Scandals of Graham Platner

9

Giving People Cash Directly ft. Nick Allardice

10

How can we make government work again? ft. Senator Michael Bennet

11

How worried are you about data centers? ft. Andy Masley

12

Abundance and AI ft. Alex Bores

13

What happens to humanity after the spike? ft. Dean Spears

14

Is the Supreme Court the Last Branch Standing? ft. Sarah Isgur

15

Hasan Piker Is Not Your Ally

16

New Liberal Mailbag #11

17

Do Democrats have a 'Slopulism' problem? ft. Ben Ritz

18

A New Plan for DC ft. Kenyan McDuffie

19

Trump Starts a War With Iran - What's Next?

20

The Right Kind of Inclusivity

21

The Science of Second Chances ft. Jennifer Doleac

22

Are Immigrants Draining Our Resources? ft. David Bier

23

How do swing voters think? ft. Sarah Longwell

24

Putting Parents over Platforms ft. Rep. Jake Auchincloss

25

How to Resist ICE ft. Will Stancil

26

How should Democrats talk about ICE? ft. Matt Yglesias

27

How should we think about Venezuela? ft. Frank Fukuyama

28

The New Liberal Podcast's Best Books of 2025, Part 2

29

Deciding to Win ft. Simon Bazelon

30

Trump's plan for Ukraine ft. Tamar Jacoby

31

The Turnaround in New Orleans's schools ft. David Osborne

32

Did the Internet cause global populism? A live recording with Francis Fukuyama

33

Voting to Build More Housing in New York ft. Alec Schierenbeck

34

Healthcare and Shutdowns ft. Congressman Ritchie Torres

35

The Right Wing Media Takeover ft. Matt Gertz

36

Is Free Speech Under Threat in America? ft. Sarah McLaughlin

37

Authoritarians in the Academy ft. Sarah McLaughlin

38

The Rise of Political Violence in America

39

Building America Faster ft. Congressman Josh Harder

40

The Race to the 2026 Midterms ft. Dave Weigel

41

Saving Social Security ft. Ben Ritz

42

Keeping America's Auto Industry Running ft. Adam Ozimek

43

Why do we need an independent Fed?

44

Is Algospeak Inevitable? ft. Adam Aleksic

45

Building Excellent Schools ft. Jack Despain Zhou

46

Trump's Big Bill and Your Energy Bill ft. Elan Sykes

47

Breaking Down the Big Beautiful Bill ft. Jason Furman & Ben Ritz

48

What We Fight About When We Fight About Abundance

49

Russia's Indoctrination Machine ft. Ian Garner

50

Should we pay kidney donors? ft. Elaine Perlman

51

Making Immigration Popular ft. Alexander Kustov

52

What should we do about the rise of sports betting? ft. Isaac Rose Berman

53

Decoding Canada's Election ft. J.J. McCullough

54

The Tragedy of Tariffs

55

Are we sleepwalking into a budget crisis? ft. Jessica Riedl and Ben Ritz

56

Saving Medicaid ft. Congressman Ritchie Torres

57

Why Class Matters ft. Richard Kahlenberg

58

Creating Abundance ft. Derek Thompson

59

A Pragmatic Energy Policy ft. Elan Sykes

60

Why Nothing Works ft. Marc Dunkelman

61

What's the deal with DOGE?

62

Why Young Men Moved Right ft. Richard Reeves

63

Winning the Working Class ft. Will Marshall

64

The New Liberal Podcast's Best Books of 2024, pt 2

65

The Future of Substack ft. Hamish McKenzie

66

Making Government More Effective ft. Jennifer Pahlka

67

How Democrats Win ft. Congressman Ritchie Torres

68

Can Antitrust help fix our broken politics? ft. Diana Moss

69

A 2024 Post-Election Breakdown

70

The congressional district that could swing the election ft. Denise Powell

71

Modeling the 2024 Race ft. Lakshya Jain

72

A Better Climate Activism ft. Matt Yglesias

73

The Center Must Hold ft. Yair Zivan

74

Where's my Self-Driving Car? ft. Timothy Lee

75

Why Conservatives Demonize Immigrants

76

The New Liberal Podcast's Best Books of 2024, pt 1

77

Liberalism in the Democratic Party ft. Project Liberal

78

On The Edge ft. Nate Silver

79

Should America have more babies? ft. Lyman Stone

80

A Pragmatic Liberal Budget ft. Ben Ritz & Laura Duffy

81

How Lobbying took over DC ft. Brody Mullins

82

It's Kamala Time ft. Matti Miranda

83

The Purpose of Liberalism

84

Breaking down Labour's Landslide ft. Claire Ainsley

85

The Non-Profit Industrial Complex ft. Jonathan Ireland

86

The Politics of Fashion ft. Derek Guy

87

The Tour to Save Democracy ft. Sam Schwartz and Maya Luna

88

Green Energy, Wires, and Housing ft. Rep. Scott Peters

89

Fixing New York's Housing Crisis with Councilmember Erik Bottcher

90

A new Chief Neoliberal Shill ft. Joey Politano

91

Liberalism in India ft. Gurcharan Das

92

America, China, and TikTok ft. James Palmer

93

Should we ban kids from social media? ft. Shoshana Weissmann

94

Will North Carolina Flip in 2024? ft. Blair Reeves

95

How Abortion Impacts the 2024 Election ft. Grace Panetta

96

Should Puerto Rico be a state? ft. George Laws Garcia

97

Everyone Hates TicketMaster ft. Diana Moss

98

The UK's Housing Crisis ft. Freddie Poser

99

Is GOP Dysfunction Harming Global Liberalism? ft. Francis Fukuyama

100

Bonus episode unlocked! Does Bidenomics Work? ft. Ed Gresser

101

How Labour got its groove back ft. Claire Ainsley

102

The New Liberal Podcast's Best Books of 2023

103

New Liberal Mailbag #10

104

Why Dems win in Colorado ft. Sarah Andrews

105

Are your points in danger? ft. Brian Kelly, The Points Guy

106

Why is the public down on the economy? ft. Will Stancil

107

Should Joe Biden drop out? ft. Nate Silver

108

The Integralist Right ft. Kevin Vallier

109

Saving 25 million lives ft. Mark Dybul

110

Fixing the Opioid Crisis ft. Rep. Brittany Pettersen

111

Should you doom about the climate? ft. Jessica Weinkle & Alex Trembath

112

Getting the border under control ft. Alex Nowrasteh

113

Congressional Chaos - McCarthy's out, now what? ft. Eric Garcia

114

Has Europe given up on Tech? ft. Derek Robertson

115

A Better Antitrust ft. Diana Moss

116

The race for 2024 ft. Jonathan Chait

117

YIMBYs in New York ft. Rachel Fee & Alex Armlovich

118

How Rich Neighborhoods Excluded the Poor ft. Richard Kahlenberg

119

The Urbanism of Tokyo ft. Joe McReynolds

120

Hollywood on Strike ft. Jeff Maurer

121

Ugh, Capitalism - joint episode with the Free The Economy podcast

122

The New Liberal Podcast's Best Books of 2023, Part 1

123

Social Media in Chaos ft. Mike Masnick

124

Building a New Ukraine ft. Tamar Jacoby

125

Why Progressives Value Process over Progress

126

Why You Should Consider Donating a Kidney

127

Should America have more Apprenticeships? ft. Taylor Maag

128

Who Controls our Technology? ft. Daron Acemoğlu & Simon Johnson

129

Liberalism Around the World: Liberalism in Estonia ft. Tarmo Jüristo

130

YIMBYism in Montana ft. ShelterWF

131

YIMBYism in California ft. Ned Resnikoff

132

Dodging the Debt Ceiling ft. Ben Ritz

133

The Posting-to-Policy Pipeline ft. Chief New Liberal Shill Matt Darling

134

New Liberal Mailbag #9

135

Is Land a Big Deal? ft. Lars Doucet

136

Georgism and Liberalism ft. Chris England

137

Trump's Indictment - What we know and what it means

138

Giving Effectively, Giving Well ft. Buddy Shah

139

What we talk about when we talk about 'Woke'

140

Is there a War on Cars? ft. Aaron Naparstek

141

How Silicon Valley Bank Collapsed ft. Joseph Politano

142

Predicting the Future ft. Stephen Grugett

143

Why does Section 230 matter? ft. Malena Dailey and Shoshana Weissmann

144

Competition with China and Friend-shoring in East Asia ft. Noah Smith

145

Finding Common Ground on Immigration ft. Will Marshall

146

Can we hit a Soft Landing? ft. Joseph Politano

147

Reporting from Ukraine ft. Oz Katerji

148

The New Liberal Podcast's Best Books of 2022 (Part Two)

149

Decoding China's Zero COVID Protests ft. James Palmer

150

Why are we all so Chronically Online? ft. Rebecca Jennings

151

The End of History ft. Francis Fukuyama

152

Fighting Malaria ft. Rob Mather

153

The GOP's upcoming civil war ft. Tim Miller

154

Will Elon Kill Twitter? ft. Mike Masnick

155

How do we get an Abundance Agenda? ft. Derek Thompson & Suraj Patel

156

From Red Wave to Red Trickle - Post-Election Breakdown ft. Sarah Paden

157

Joint Episode with The Political Orphanage: NEPA's Paperwork Hell

158

New Liberal Mailbag #8

159

What's gone wrong with boys and men? ft. Richard Reeves

160

Future Pandemic Policy ft. Josh Morrison & Gavriel Kleinwaks

161

Reporting about Russia ft. Denis Malinin

162

Saving the World from Catastrophic Weapons ft. Christine Parthemore

163

Slouching Towards Utopia ft. Brad DeLong

164

The Battle for Reproductive Rights in Kansas ft. Ashley All

165

Reducing Animal Suffering ft. Lewis Bollard

166

Debating Congress's Big Bills with Ben Ritz

167

Explaining Argentina ft. Maia Mindel

168

The New Liberal Podcast's Best Books of 2022 (Part One)

169

The Past and Future of Polling ft. G Elliott Morris

170

Should we build more public housing? ft. Paul Williams

171

Building an Innovation Policy ft. Congressman Ami Bera

172

Why has political comedy gotten worse? ft. Jeff Maurer

173

The Arbitrary Lines of Zoning ft. M Nolan Gray

174

Preventing Gun Violence ft. Congressman Brad Schneider

175

What's wrong with the Libertarian Party? ft. Joseph Bishop-Henchman & Andy Craig

176

The Complications of Climate Policy ft. Kristin Eberhard & Shuting Pomerleau

177

Streets of Gold ft. Leah Boustan & Ran Abramitzky

178

What is Modern Neoliberalism ft. Cardiff Garcia & The New Bazaar

179

Mailbag #7

180

Why We Fight ft. Chris Blattman

181

The Truth about Food Trucks ft. Kyle Sweetland

182

The Impact of Sanctions ft. Ed Gresser

183

Why positivity works for Democrats ft. Congresswoman Shontel Brown

184

Liberalism Around the World: Brazil ft. Magno Karl & Fernando Moreno

185

The SF School Board Recall ft. Autumn Looijen, Siva Raj & Steven Buss

186

Breaking up with Russia's Oil and Gas ft. Paul Bledsoe

187

Russia's attack on Ukraine and Liberal Democracy

188

Fixing America's Housing ft. Jenny Schuetz

189

What's wrong with MMT? ft. Eric Leeper & Ben Ritz

190

Identity Politics ft. Andrea Jones-Rooy & Andrew Heaton

191

Radically Pragmatic: Living with COVID

192

Anti-Trust or Anti-Tech? ft. Michael Mandel & Malena Dailey

193

The Neoliberal Podcast's Best Books of 2021

194

The State of American Democracy - one year post-insurrection

195

Getting the organs we need ft. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi & Jennifer Erickson

196

Mailbag #6

197

Taming Inflation ft. Alan Cole

198

2022 Midterms - Assume Doom? ft. Tim Miller

199

Explaining Economic Growth ft. Joel Mokyr

200

Why Crypto Matters ft. Vitalik Buterin

201

Building Green Tech ft. Noah Smith

202

Supply Chains and Trade Policy ft. Ed Gresser

203

Helping Afghan Refugees ft. Jessica Gronert

204

Breaking the Policy Glass Ceiling ft. Jasmine Stoughton of the Mosaic Economic Project

205

The Politics of Housing ft. Jerusalem Demsas, part 1

206

How pollution shapes our economy and our health ft. Claudia Persico

207

Cost Disease Socialism ft. Sam Hammond & Daniel Takash

208

Liberalism Around the World: Bangladesh

209

What does a neoliberal infrastructure package look like?

210

Infrastructure Intrigue ft. Grace Panetta & Ben Ritz

211

Defining Neoliberalism ft. Kevin Vallier

212

Technology and Protest in Cuba ft. Antonio Garcia Martinez

213

Cybersecurity, Inequality, and Housing ft. Congressman Jim Himes

214

Reducing Harm ft. Ray Niaura

215

Real Neoliberal Hour ft. Andrea Jones Rooy and Andrew Heaton

216

Best Books of 2021, Part 1

217

Who hates Big Tech? ft. Alec Stapp

218

The Week of Action + Neoliberal Conference

219

Why You Should Donate a Kidney

220

Joint Episode: Modern Liberalism ft. Richard Reeves

221

Fabric and Civilization ft. Virginia Postrel

222

Substack and the Media ft. Chris Best

223

Mailbag #5

224

The Virtues of Openness ft. Johan Norberg

225

The Scout Mindset ft. Julia Galef

226

The Right Wing Media ft. Matt Gertz

227

Liberalism in Taiwan ft. Angelica Oung & Kwangyin Liu

228

Politics is for Power ft. Eitan Hersh

229

Infrastructure and the US Virgin Islands ft. Representative Stacey Plaskett

230

Reflections near the Pandemic's End

231

Social Media Politics ft. 2021 Neoliberal Shill Champion Bastiat

232

A Center-Left Climate Plan ft. Rep. Scott Peters

233

Charter Schools and Choice ft. Tressa Pankovits & Curtis Valentine

234

Immigrants and Institutions ft. Alex Nowrasteh

235

Transit Turmoil ft. Alon Levy

236

The New Democrat Plan ft. Congressman Brad Schneider

237

How Rights Went Wrong ft. Jamal Greene

238

Fighting Fentanyl ft. Bryce Pardo

239

Joint Episode: PPI Podcast ft. Oregon State Treasurer Tobias Read

240

The Uighur Genocide ft. Megha Rajagopalan & Alison Killing

241

Why does US health care cost so much? ft. Arielle Kane

242

Creating a Child Allowance with Matt Bruenig and Sam Hammond

243

What Neoliberals Believe ft. Colin Mortimer

244

The COVID Vaccine Rollout ft. German Lopez

245

The Neoliberal Podcast's Best Books of 2020, Part 2

246

The Neoliberal Podcast's Best Books of 2020, Part 1

247

Sex Workers and the State ft. Cathy Reisenwitz

248

Emergency Episode: Armed Insurrection

249

What's Wrong with Republicans? ft. The Lincoln Project's Reed Galen

250

Fixing the Housing Crisis ft. Jenny Schuetz

251

How One Tax Might Make Matters Worse

252

Post-Election Grifting ft. The Grifter Report

253

Strengthening the Safety Net ft. Sam Hammond, Part 1

254

Democratic Diagnosis ft. David Shor

255

The Jay Powell Fed ft. Karl Smith & Josh Barro

256

Election Rundown ft. Some Politics Podcast

257

The Gig Economy ft. Adam Ozimek

258

Protests, Violence and Voting ft. Omar Wasow

259

Voting in 2020 ft. Grace Panetta

260

Mailbag #4

261

Model Mayhem: Joint episode with The Grifter Report

262

Millennial Burnout ft. Anne Helen Petersen

263

One Billion Americans ft. Matt Yglesias

264

Some Politics Podcast: Rioting and the 2020 Election

265

Building American Resilience ft. Will Marshall

266

The Long-Term Impact of COVID ft. Karl Muth

267

The Key to Encryption ft. Mike Masnick & Alec Stapp

268

Trade Throwdown ft. Noah Smith & Scott Lincicome

269

Q&A with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai

270

In High Demand - Marijuana Legalization ft. Beau Kilmer

271

The Moral Adventure of Liberalism ft. Adam Gopnik

272

Profiling Pelosi ft. Molly Ball

273

Cancel Culture ft. Katie Herzog & Jesse Singal

274

Should everyone Vote at Home? ft. Phil Keisling

275

The Roots of Progress ft. Jason Crawford

276

Reforming the Police ft. Jennifer Doleac, Jamein Cunningham & Bocar Ba

277

Why don't we build Hong Kong elsewhere? ft. Ivan Ko

278

A Green Manufacturing Plan ft. Paul Bledsoe

279

The Neoliberal Podcast's Best Books of the first half of 2020

280

Coronavirus Vaccine Challenge Trials ft. Josh Morrison & Gavriel Kleinwaks

281

The Media and Coronavirus ft. Adam Gurri

282

Real Neoliberal Hour ft. Shoshana Wiessmann & Andrew Heaton

283

Trade in a Pandemic ft. Chief Neoliberal Shill Scott Lincicome

284

100th episode special - The History of the Neoliberal Project ft. Colin Mortimer

285

The Hammer and the Dance ft. Michael LeVasseur & Michael Donnelly

286

The Economic Response to Coronavirus ft. Jordan Weissmann & Matt Darling

287

Mailbag #3

288

When to trust Antitrust ft. Florian Ederer & Alec Stapp

289

Budget Breakdown ft. Ben Ritz

290

The Decadent Society ft. Ross Douthat

291

Liberalism Around the World: Catalonia ft. Martí Jiménez & Pau Vila

292

A New Chapter ft. Will Marshall

293

Why We're Polarized ft. Ezra Klein - Part 2

294

Why We're Polarized ft. Ezra Klein - Part 1

295

The Iowa Caucuses ft. Sarah Frostenson

296

International Tax Hacks ft Alex Parker

297

Innovation + Equality ft. Dr Joshua Gans

298

The Neoliberal Podcast's Best Books for 2019

299

State of the Economy ft. Josh Barro

300

The case for Industrial Policy ft. Noah Smith

301

Bad Incentives ft. John Mozena

302

Open Borders ft. Bryan Caplan & Zach Weinersmith

303

Pollution Problems ft. Dr Karen Clay

304

In Defense of Globalism ft. Dalibor Rohac

305

Neoliberals & Libertarians - Joint episode with Jen the Libertarian

306

The Hong Kong Protests ft. Anonymous Hong Konger

307

Immigrants and Assimilation ft. Leah Boustan

308

Carbon Taxes ft. Adele Morris, David Hart & Philippe Benoit

309

Neoliberal Mailbag #2

310

Criminal Justice ft. Dr Jennifer Doleac

311

Foreign Aid and Growth ft. Dr William Easterly

312

Boris's Brexit Breakdown ft. Jonathan Portes

313

The Long Path to the Future ft. Ari Wallach

314

Trans under Trump ft. Katelyn Burns and Riley Dosh

315

The History of Neoliberalism ft. Quinn Slobodian

316

White Nationalism ft. Zack Beauchamp

317

Democratic Debates ft. Molly Ball & Catherine Rampell

318

Seeking Dignity ft. Chris Arnade

319

John Delaney 2020 ft. John Delaney

320

The Case Against Cars ft. Professor Gregory Shill

321

Right Wing Grifters #2: Grift Harder

322

Immigration Nation ft. Alex Nowrasteh

323

Neoliberal Mailbag #1

324

Good at Doing Good: Effective Altruism ft. Robert Wiblin

325

The Mike Gravel Campaign ft. Henry Williams and David Oks

326

Fed Up with the Fed ft. Karl Smith

327

Universal Basic Income ft. Ioana Marinescu

328

Gender & Economics ft. Dr Erin Hengel

329

Neoliberals vs Libertarians - joint episode with the Cato Daily Podcast

330

Chief Neoliberal Shill ft. Matt Yglesias

331

Our Incel Problem ft. Zack Beauchamp

332

Work Requirements Don't Work - Behavioral Econ ft. Matt Darling

333

Real Neoliberal Hour #8 - Institutional Decay

334

Building Africa's Future ft. Mwiya Musokotwane

335

Donating a Kidney with Dylan Matthews

336

Neolib Podcast Live - Against Moderation ft. Sam Hammond, Glen Weyl & Tamara Winter

337

The Progressive Case for Globalism ft. Dr Kimberly Clausing

338

#Resistance grifters + Ronald Plump ft. Connor Fletcher

339

The Future of the Right ft. Charlie Sykes, Will Wilkinson and Robert Mariani

340

Green New Deal ft. Umair Irfan and Joseph Majkut

341

Getting to the Root of Venture Capital ft. Lee Edwards

342

Revolt of the Public ft. Martin Gurri

343

Kidney Matching ft. Dr Alvin Roth & Josh Morrison

344

Trade and Technology ft. Caleb Watney and Scott Lincicome

345

Significant Science ft. Dr Andrew Gelman

346

Brexit Breakdown ft. Sam Bowman & Dalibor Rohac

347

The right-wing grift economy ft. Connor Fletcher

348

The French Connection ft. Manu Saadia

349

$15 Minimum Wage ft. Sam Hammond, Ioana Marinescu and Noah Smith

350

Against Malaria ft. Rob Mather

351

Politics and Gaming ft. Destiny

352

Radical Markets ft. Glen Weyl

353

Does DC even know how to work a fax machine? ft. Zach Graves

354

All things Elizabeth Warren ft. Sam Hammond

355

Real Neoliberal Hour #7 - Midterm Mania

356

What is wrong with Congress? ft. Chris Nehls

357

Real Neoliberal Hour #6 - The Amazon Gambit

358

And a Singapore on every corner ft. Mark Lutter

359

Real Neoliberal Hour #5 - All Aboot Canada

360

A Social Wealth Fund for America ft. Matt Bruenig

361

Yes in my Big Apple ft. Nikolai Fedak

362

It is time to rethink veterans ft. Paul Rieckhoff

363

Real Neoliberal Hour #4

364

Hardware is eating the world ft. Caleb Watney

365

Real Neoliberal Hour #3

366

OI M8 WHERE'S YOUR DIRT LICENSE ft. Shoshana Weissmann

367

Real Neoliberal Hour #2

368

Real Neoliberal Hour #1

369

A Tale of Two Cities ft. Will Wilkinson

370

Neoliberalism Down Under ft. Dr. Rachael Meager

371

Let them have Cash ft. Sam Hammond

372

The Neoliberal Shill Champion Episode ft. Noah Smith

373

NGDP, the Nordic Model and Neoliberalism ft. Scott Sumner

374

I'm a Neoliberal, and maybe you are too ft. Sam Bowman

375

Yes in my Sixth District ft. Sonja Trauss