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The New Liberal Podcast — 375 episodes
The Case for American Power ft. Shadi Hamid
What went wrong for Keir Starmer? ft. Claire Ainsley
Is the Mississippi Miracle Real? ft. Kelsey Piper
The New Liberal Podcast's Best Books of 2026 (Part 1)
The Crisis of Liberalism
Should libertarians ally with abundance liberals?
Why Gen Z Isn't Actually Doomed
The Many Scandals of Graham Platner
Giving People Cash Directly ft. Nick Allardice
How can we make government work again? ft. Senator Michael Bennet
How worried are you about data centers? ft. Andy Masley
Abundance and AI ft. Alex Bores
What happens to humanity after the spike? ft. Dean Spears
Is the Supreme Court the Last Branch Standing? ft. Sarah Isgur
Hasan Piker Is Not Your Ally
New Liberal Mailbag #11
Do Democrats have a 'Slopulism' problem? ft. Ben Ritz
A New Plan for DC ft. Kenyan McDuffie
Trump Starts a War With Iran - What's Next?
The Right Kind of Inclusivity
The Science of Second Chances ft. Jennifer Doleac
Are Immigrants Draining Our Resources? ft. David Bier
How do swing voters think? ft. Sarah Longwell
Putting Parents over Platforms ft. Rep. Jake Auchincloss
How to Resist ICE ft. Will Stancil
How should Democrats talk about ICE? ft. Matt Yglesias
How should we think about Venezuela? ft. Frank Fukuyama
The New Liberal Podcast's Best Books of 2025, Part 2
Deciding to Win ft. Simon Bazelon
Trump's plan for Ukraine ft. Tamar Jacoby
The Turnaround in New Orleans's schools ft. David Osborne
Did the Internet cause global populism? A live recording with Francis Fukuyama
Voting to Build More Housing in New York ft. Alec Schierenbeck
Healthcare and Shutdowns ft. Congressman Ritchie Torres
The Right Wing Media Takeover ft. Matt Gertz
Is Free Speech Under Threat in America? ft. Sarah McLaughlin
Authoritarians in the Academy ft. Sarah McLaughlin
The Rise of Political Violence in America
Building America Faster ft. Congressman Josh Harder
The Race to the 2026 Midterms ft. Dave Weigel
Saving Social Security ft. Ben Ritz
Keeping America's Auto Industry Running ft. Adam Ozimek
Why do we need an independent Fed?
Is Algospeak Inevitable? ft. Adam Aleksic
Building Excellent Schools ft. Jack Despain Zhou
Trump's Big Bill and Your Energy Bill ft. Elan Sykes
Breaking Down the Big Beautiful Bill ft. Jason Furman & Ben Ritz
What We Fight About When We Fight About Abundance
Russia's Indoctrination Machine ft. Ian Garner
Should we pay kidney donors? ft. Elaine Perlman
Making Immigration Popular ft. Alexander Kustov
What should we do about the rise of sports betting? ft. Isaac Rose Berman
Decoding Canada's Election ft. J.J. McCullough
The Tragedy of Tariffs
Are we sleepwalking into a budget crisis? ft. Jessica Riedl and Ben Ritz
Saving Medicaid ft. Congressman Ritchie Torres
Why Class Matters ft. Richard Kahlenberg
Creating Abundance ft. Derek Thompson
A Pragmatic Energy Policy ft. Elan Sykes
Why Nothing Works ft. Marc Dunkelman
What's the deal with DOGE?
Why Young Men Moved Right ft. Richard Reeves
Winning the Working Class ft. Will Marshall
The New Liberal Podcast's Best Books of 2024, pt 2
The Future of Substack ft. Hamish McKenzie
Making Government More Effective ft. Jennifer Pahlka
How Democrats Win ft. Congressman Ritchie Torres
Can Antitrust help fix our broken politics? ft. Diana Moss
A 2024 Post-Election Breakdown
The congressional district that could swing the election ft. Denise Powell
Modeling the 2024 Race ft. Lakshya Jain
A Better Climate Activism ft. Matt Yglesias
The Center Must Hold ft. Yair Zivan
Where's my Self-Driving Car? ft. Timothy Lee
Why Conservatives Demonize Immigrants
The New Liberal Podcast's Best Books of 2024, pt 1
Liberalism in the Democratic Party ft. Project Liberal
On The Edge ft. Nate Silver
Should America have more babies? ft. Lyman Stone
A Pragmatic Liberal Budget ft. Ben Ritz & Laura Duffy
How Lobbying took over DC ft. Brody Mullins
It's Kamala Time ft. Matti Miranda
The Purpose of Liberalism
Breaking down Labour's Landslide ft. Claire Ainsley
The Non-Profit Industrial Complex ft. Jonathan Ireland
The Politics of Fashion ft. Derek Guy
The Tour to Save Democracy ft. Sam Schwartz and Maya Luna
Green Energy, Wires, and Housing ft. Rep. Scott Peters
Fixing New York's Housing Crisis with Councilmember Erik Bottcher
A new Chief Neoliberal Shill ft. Joey Politano
Liberalism in India ft. Gurcharan Das
America, China, and TikTok ft. James Palmer
Should we ban kids from social media? ft. Shoshana Weissmann
Will North Carolina Flip in 2024? ft. Blair Reeves
How Abortion Impacts the 2024 Election ft. Grace Panetta
Should Puerto Rico be a state? ft. George Laws Garcia
Everyone Hates TicketMaster ft. Diana Moss
The UK's Housing Crisis ft. Freddie Poser
Is GOP Dysfunction Harming Global Liberalism? ft. Francis Fukuyama
Bonus episode unlocked! Does Bidenomics Work? ft. Ed Gresser
How Labour got its groove back ft. Claire Ainsley
The New Liberal Podcast's Best Books of 2023
New Liberal Mailbag #10
Why Dems win in Colorado ft. Sarah Andrews
Are your points in danger? ft. Brian Kelly, The Points Guy
Why is the public down on the economy? ft. Will Stancil
Should Joe Biden drop out? ft. Nate Silver
The Integralist Right ft. Kevin Vallier
Saving 25 million lives ft. Mark Dybul
Fixing the Opioid Crisis ft. Rep. Brittany Pettersen
Should you doom about the climate? ft. Jessica Weinkle & Alex Trembath
Getting the border under control ft. Alex Nowrasteh
Congressional Chaos - McCarthy's out, now what? ft. Eric Garcia
Has Europe given up on Tech? ft. Derek Robertson
A Better Antitrust ft. Diana Moss
The race for 2024 ft. Jonathan Chait
YIMBYs in New York ft. Rachel Fee & Alex Armlovich
How Rich Neighborhoods Excluded the Poor ft. Richard Kahlenberg
The Urbanism of Tokyo ft. Joe McReynolds
Hollywood on Strike ft. Jeff Maurer
Ugh, Capitalism - joint episode with the Free The Economy podcast
The New Liberal Podcast's Best Books of 2023, Part 1
Social Media in Chaos ft. Mike Masnick
Building a New Ukraine ft. Tamar Jacoby
Why Progressives Value Process over Progress
Why You Should Consider Donating a Kidney
Should America have more Apprenticeships? ft. Taylor Maag
Who Controls our Technology? ft. Daron Acemoğlu & Simon Johnson
Liberalism Around the World: Liberalism in Estonia ft. Tarmo Jüristo
YIMBYism in Montana ft. ShelterWF
YIMBYism in California ft. Ned Resnikoff
Dodging the Debt Ceiling ft. Ben Ritz
The Posting-to-Policy Pipeline ft. Chief New Liberal Shill Matt Darling
New Liberal Mailbag #9
Is Land a Big Deal? ft. Lars Doucet
Georgism and Liberalism ft. Chris England
Trump's Indictment - What we know and what it means
Giving Effectively, Giving Well ft. Buddy Shah
What we talk about when we talk about 'Woke'
Is there a War on Cars? ft. Aaron Naparstek
How Silicon Valley Bank Collapsed ft. Joseph Politano
Predicting the Future ft. Stephen Grugett
Why does Section 230 matter? ft. Malena Dailey and Shoshana Weissmann
Competition with China and Friend-shoring in East Asia ft. Noah Smith
Finding Common Ground on Immigration ft. Will Marshall
Can we hit a Soft Landing? ft. Joseph Politano
Reporting from Ukraine ft. Oz Katerji
The New Liberal Podcast's Best Books of 2022 (Part Two)
Decoding China's Zero COVID Protests ft. James Palmer
Why are we all so Chronically Online? ft. Rebecca Jennings
The End of History ft. Francis Fukuyama
Fighting Malaria ft. Rob Mather
The GOP's upcoming civil war ft. Tim Miller
Will Elon Kill Twitter? ft. Mike Masnick
How do we get an Abundance Agenda? ft. Derek Thompson & Suraj Patel
From Red Wave to Red Trickle - Post-Election Breakdown ft. Sarah Paden
Joint Episode with The Political Orphanage: NEPA's Paperwork Hell
New Liberal Mailbag #8
What's gone wrong with boys and men? ft. Richard Reeves
Future Pandemic Policy ft. Josh Morrison & Gavriel Kleinwaks
Reporting about Russia ft. Denis Malinin
Saving the World from Catastrophic Weapons ft. Christine Parthemore
Slouching Towards Utopia ft. Brad DeLong
The Battle for Reproductive Rights in Kansas ft. Ashley All
Reducing Animal Suffering ft. Lewis Bollard
Debating Congress's Big Bills with Ben Ritz
Explaining Argentina ft. Maia Mindel
The New Liberal Podcast's Best Books of 2022 (Part One)
The Past and Future of Polling ft. G Elliott Morris
Should we build more public housing? ft. Paul Williams
Building an Innovation Policy ft. Congressman Ami Bera
Why has political comedy gotten worse? ft. Jeff Maurer
The Arbitrary Lines of Zoning ft. M Nolan Gray
Preventing Gun Violence ft. Congressman Brad Schneider
What's wrong with the Libertarian Party? ft. Joseph Bishop-Henchman & Andy Craig
The Complications of Climate Policy ft. Kristin Eberhard & Shuting Pomerleau
Streets of Gold ft. Leah Boustan & Ran Abramitzky
What is Modern Neoliberalism ft. Cardiff Garcia & The New Bazaar
Mailbag #7
Why We Fight ft. Chris Blattman
The Truth about Food Trucks ft. Kyle Sweetland
The Impact of Sanctions ft. Ed Gresser
Why positivity works for Democrats ft. Congresswoman Shontel Brown
Liberalism Around the World: Brazil ft. Magno Karl & Fernando Moreno
The SF School Board Recall ft. Autumn Looijen, Siva Raj & Steven Buss
Breaking up with Russia's Oil and Gas ft. Paul Bledsoe
Russia's attack on Ukraine and Liberal Democracy
Fixing America's Housing ft. Jenny Schuetz
What's wrong with MMT? ft. Eric Leeper & Ben Ritz
Identity Politics ft. Andrea Jones-Rooy & Andrew Heaton
Radically Pragmatic: Living with COVID
Anti-Trust or Anti-Tech? ft. Michael Mandel & Malena Dailey
The Neoliberal Podcast's Best Books of 2021
The State of American Democracy - one year post-insurrection
Getting the organs we need ft. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi & Jennifer Erickson
Mailbag #6
Taming Inflation ft. Alan Cole
2022 Midterms - Assume Doom? ft. Tim Miller
Explaining Economic Growth ft. Joel Mokyr
Why Crypto Matters ft. Vitalik Buterin
Building Green Tech ft. Noah Smith
Supply Chains and Trade Policy ft. Ed Gresser
Helping Afghan Refugees ft. Jessica Gronert
Breaking the Policy Glass Ceiling ft. Jasmine Stoughton of the Mosaic Economic Project
The Politics of Housing ft. Jerusalem Demsas, part 1
How pollution shapes our economy and our health ft. Claudia Persico
Cost Disease Socialism ft. Sam Hammond & Daniel Takash
Liberalism Around the World: Bangladesh
What does a neoliberal infrastructure package look like?
Infrastructure Intrigue ft. Grace Panetta & Ben Ritz
Defining Neoliberalism ft. Kevin Vallier
Technology and Protest in Cuba ft. Antonio Garcia Martinez
Cybersecurity, Inequality, and Housing ft. Congressman Jim Himes
Reducing Harm ft. Ray Niaura
Real Neoliberal Hour ft. Andrea Jones Rooy and Andrew Heaton
Best Books of 2021, Part 1
Who hates Big Tech? ft. Alec Stapp
The Week of Action + Neoliberal Conference
Why You Should Donate a Kidney
Joint Episode: Modern Liberalism ft. Richard Reeves
Fabric and Civilization ft. Virginia Postrel
Substack and the Media ft. Chris Best
Mailbag #5
The Virtues of Openness ft. Johan Norberg
The Scout Mindset ft. Julia Galef
The Right Wing Media ft. Matt Gertz
Liberalism in Taiwan ft. Angelica Oung & Kwangyin Liu
Politics is for Power ft. Eitan Hersh
Infrastructure and the US Virgin Islands ft. Representative Stacey Plaskett
Reflections near the Pandemic's End
Social Media Politics ft. 2021 Neoliberal Shill Champion Bastiat
A Center-Left Climate Plan ft. Rep. Scott Peters
Charter Schools and Choice ft. Tressa Pankovits & Curtis Valentine
Immigrants and Institutions ft. Alex Nowrasteh
Transit Turmoil ft. Alon Levy
The New Democrat Plan ft. Congressman Brad Schneider
How Rights Went Wrong ft. Jamal Greene
Fighting Fentanyl ft. Bryce Pardo
Joint Episode: PPI Podcast ft. Oregon State Treasurer Tobias Read
The Uighur Genocide ft. Megha Rajagopalan & Alison Killing
Why does US health care cost so much? ft. Arielle Kane
Creating a Child Allowance with Matt Bruenig and Sam Hammond
What Neoliberals Believe ft. Colin Mortimer
The COVID Vaccine Rollout ft. German Lopez
The Neoliberal Podcast's Best Books of 2020, Part 2
The Neoliberal Podcast's Best Books of 2020, Part 1
Sex Workers and the State ft. Cathy Reisenwitz
Emergency Episode: Armed Insurrection
What's Wrong with Republicans? ft. The Lincoln Project's Reed Galen
Fixing the Housing Crisis ft. Jenny Schuetz
How One Tax Might Make Matters Worse
Post-Election Grifting ft. The Grifter Report
Strengthening the Safety Net ft. Sam Hammond, Part 1
Democratic Diagnosis ft. David Shor
The Jay Powell Fed ft. Karl Smith & Josh Barro
Election Rundown ft. Some Politics Podcast
The Gig Economy ft. Adam Ozimek
Protests, Violence and Voting ft. Omar Wasow
Voting in 2020 ft. Grace Panetta
Mailbag #4
Model Mayhem: Joint episode with The Grifter Report
Millennial Burnout ft. Anne Helen Petersen
One Billion Americans ft. Matt Yglesias
Some Politics Podcast: Rioting and the 2020 Election
Building American Resilience ft. Will Marshall
The Long-Term Impact of COVID ft. Karl Muth
The Key to Encryption ft. Mike Masnick & Alec Stapp
Trade Throwdown ft. Noah Smith & Scott Lincicome
Q&A with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai
In High Demand - Marijuana Legalization ft. Beau Kilmer
The Moral Adventure of Liberalism ft. Adam Gopnik
Profiling Pelosi ft. Molly Ball
Cancel Culture ft. Katie Herzog & Jesse Singal
Should everyone Vote at Home? ft. Phil Keisling
The Roots of Progress ft. Jason Crawford
Reforming the Police ft. Jennifer Doleac, Jamein Cunningham & Bocar Ba
Why don't we build Hong Kong elsewhere? ft. Ivan Ko
A Green Manufacturing Plan ft. Paul Bledsoe
The Neoliberal Podcast's Best Books of the first half of 2020
Coronavirus Vaccine Challenge Trials ft. Josh Morrison & Gavriel Kleinwaks
The Media and Coronavirus ft. Adam Gurri
Real Neoliberal Hour ft. Shoshana Wiessmann & Andrew Heaton
Trade in a Pandemic ft. Chief Neoliberal Shill Scott Lincicome
100th episode special - The History of the Neoliberal Project ft. Colin Mortimer
The Hammer and the Dance ft. Michael LeVasseur & Michael Donnelly
The Economic Response to Coronavirus ft. Jordan Weissmann & Matt Darling
Mailbag #3
When to trust Antitrust ft. Florian Ederer & Alec Stapp
Budget Breakdown ft. Ben Ritz
The Decadent Society ft. Ross Douthat
Liberalism Around the World: Catalonia ft. Martí Jiménez & Pau Vila
A New Chapter ft. Will Marshall
Why We're Polarized ft. Ezra Klein - Part 2
Why We're Polarized ft. Ezra Klein - Part 1
The Iowa Caucuses ft. Sarah Frostenson
International Tax Hacks ft Alex Parker
Innovation + Equality ft. Dr Joshua Gans
The Neoliberal Podcast's Best Books for 2019
State of the Economy ft. Josh Barro
The case for Industrial Policy ft. Noah Smith
Bad Incentives ft. John Mozena
Open Borders ft. Bryan Caplan & Zach Weinersmith
Pollution Problems ft. Dr Karen Clay
In Defense of Globalism ft. Dalibor Rohac
Neoliberals & Libertarians - Joint episode with Jen the Libertarian
The Hong Kong Protests ft. Anonymous Hong Konger
Immigrants and Assimilation ft. Leah Boustan
Carbon Taxes ft. Adele Morris, David Hart & Philippe Benoit
Neoliberal Mailbag #2
Criminal Justice ft. Dr Jennifer Doleac
Foreign Aid and Growth ft. Dr William Easterly
Boris's Brexit Breakdown ft. Jonathan Portes
The Long Path to the Future ft. Ari Wallach
Trans under Trump ft. Katelyn Burns and Riley Dosh
The History of Neoliberalism ft. Quinn Slobodian
White Nationalism ft. Zack Beauchamp
Democratic Debates ft. Molly Ball & Catherine Rampell
Seeking Dignity ft. Chris Arnade
John Delaney 2020 ft. John Delaney
The Case Against Cars ft. Professor Gregory Shill
Right Wing Grifters #2: Grift Harder
Immigration Nation ft. Alex Nowrasteh
Neoliberal Mailbag #1
Good at Doing Good: Effective Altruism ft. Robert Wiblin
The Mike Gravel Campaign ft. Henry Williams and David Oks
Fed Up with the Fed ft. Karl Smith
Universal Basic Income ft. Ioana Marinescu
Gender & Economics ft. Dr Erin Hengel
Neoliberals vs Libertarians - joint episode with the Cato Daily Podcast
Chief Neoliberal Shill ft. Matt Yglesias
Our Incel Problem ft. Zack Beauchamp
Work Requirements Don't Work - Behavioral Econ ft. Matt Darling
Real Neoliberal Hour #8 - Institutional Decay
Building Africa's Future ft. Mwiya Musokotwane
Donating a Kidney with Dylan Matthews
Neolib Podcast Live - Against Moderation ft. Sam Hammond, Glen Weyl & Tamara Winter
The Progressive Case for Globalism ft. Dr Kimberly Clausing
#Resistance grifters + Ronald Plump ft. Connor Fletcher
The Future of the Right ft. Charlie Sykes, Will Wilkinson and Robert Mariani
Green New Deal ft. Umair Irfan and Joseph Majkut
Getting to the Root of Venture Capital ft. Lee Edwards
Revolt of the Public ft. Martin Gurri
Kidney Matching ft. Dr Alvin Roth & Josh Morrison
Trade and Technology ft. Caleb Watney and Scott Lincicome
Significant Science ft. Dr Andrew Gelman
Brexit Breakdown ft. Sam Bowman & Dalibor Rohac
The right-wing grift economy ft. Connor Fletcher
The French Connection ft. Manu Saadia
$15 Minimum Wage ft. Sam Hammond, Ioana Marinescu and Noah Smith
Against Malaria ft. Rob Mather
Politics and Gaming ft. Destiny
Radical Markets ft. Glen Weyl
Does DC even know how to work a fax machine? ft. Zach Graves
All things Elizabeth Warren ft. Sam Hammond
Real Neoliberal Hour #7 - Midterm Mania
What is wrong with Congress? ft. Chris Nehls
Real Neoliberal Hour #6 - The Amazon Gambit
And a Singapore on every corner ft. Mark Lutter
Real Neoliberal Hour #5 - All Aboot Canada
A Social Wealth Fund for America ft. Matt Bruenig
Yes in my Big Apple ft. Nikolai Fedak
It is time to rethink veterans ft. Paul Rieckhoff
Real Neoliberal Hour #4
Hardware is eating the world ft. Caleb Watney
Real Neoliberal Hour #3
OI M8 WHERE'S YOUR DIRT LICENSE ft. Shoshana Weissmann
Real Neoliberal Hour #2
Real Neoliberal Hour #1
A Tale of Two Cities ft. Will Wilkinson
Neoliberalism Down Under ft. Dr. Rachael Meager
Let them have Cash ft. Sam Hammond
The Neoliberal Shill Champion Episode ft. Noah Smith
NGDP, the Nordic Model and Neoliberalism ft. Scott Sumner
I'm a Neoliberal, and maybe you are too ft. Sam Bowman
Yes in my Sixth District ft. Sonja Trauss