The Liberalism.org Show

Interviews with Liberalism.org contributors.

The Liberalism.org Show is a society podcast hosted by Liberalism.org, with 13 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Liberalism.org hosts The Liberalism.org Show, a society show with 13 episodes published.

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  Episode #14

  From Permission to Freedom in Healthcare (with Lauren K. Hall and Alicia Plemmons)

  Aug 19, 202637 min

  Most of us assume the rules governing American healthcare were written for our safety — and that the system, whatever its flaws, basically works. In this episode, host Aaron Ross Powell talks with Lauren K. Hall, professor of political science and asso...

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  Episode #13

  What Conservatives Actually Believe About Democracy (with Scott Warren and Morgan Ramsey-Elliot)

  Aug 5, 202643 min

  Most conservatives don't see themselves as opponents of democracy — they see a democracy that has drifted from the values that make it legitimate. On this episode, Aaron Ross Powell talks with Scott Warren of the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins Un...

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  Episode #12

  Rebuilding a Liberal Majority (with Jamelle Bouie, David French, and Danielle Allen)

  Jul 25, 20261h 9m

  Institutions of bigotry, racism, and social control were supposed to be decades into retreat. Instead they have come roaring back from the top-down. In this special joint release of The Liberalism.org Show and The UnPopulist 's Zooming In, recorded live at the Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism's "Liberalism for the 21st Century" conference, host Aaron Ross Powell sits down with New York Times columnists Jamelle Bouie and David French and Harvard political theorist Danielle Allen. They discuss the apparent return of open bigotry and illiberalism to American politics, debate whether it is a Trump-specific phenomenon or a durable coalition that will outlast him, and consider why so much of it is driven from the top rather than by the public. Further Reading Justice by Means of Democracy — Danielle Allen, University of Chicago Press David French's New York Times opinion column Jamelle Bouie's New York Times opinion column Zooming In at The UnPopulist More from Liberalism.org Conservative Values, Trust, and the Prospects for Democratic Renewal — Emily Chamlee-Wright

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  Episode #11

  Why We Keep Fighting About New Technology (with Troy Cross and Karim Farhat)

  Jul 15, 202640 min

  Why does every new technology spark the same recurring fight, with utopian boosters on one side and doomers on the other, and what would a more productive conversation look like? On this episode (recorded live at the Institute for Humane Studies’ Flourishing House at SXSW) host Aaron Ross Powell talks with Troy Cross, Professor of Philosophy at Reed College and a Senior Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute, and Karim Farhat, Assistant Director of the Internet Governance Project at Georgia Tech. They explore why identity and storytelling distort our judgment about new tools, what the Bitcoin energy debates reveal about motivated reasoning, how markets have quietly solved earlier trust problems like online authentication, and why a liberal society in the age of AI has room for both data centers and the Amish family next door. Further Reading Troy Cross — Bitcoin Policy Institute Karim Farhat — Internet Governance Project C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) More from Liberalism.org Enshittification, Despotification, and the Open Internet — Mike Masnick AI and the First Amendment — Corbin Barthold

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  Episode #10

  Tariffs, Emergency Powers, and the Limits of the Presidency (with Ilya Somin)

  Jul 1, 202627 min

  It started with a blog post. When the Trump administration invoked emergency powers to impose sweeping tariffs, law professor Ilya Somin suggested in passing that someone ought to challenge it in court — and then found himself co-counsel in the case that reached the Supreme Court. In this episode, Aaron Ross Powell talks with Somin, professor of law at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School and the Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute, about how V.O.S. Selections v. Trump came together, why the Court held that the IEEPA doesn't authorize tariffs at all, and what the major questions and nondelegation doctrines mean for presidential power. They also explore what should count as a genuine "emergency," why the courts alone can't restrain executive overreach, and how litigation and ordinary politics have to work together to keep power in check. Further Reading Liberty Justice Center and I File Lawsuit Challenging Trump's "Liberation Day" Tariffs — Ilya Somin, The Volokh Conspiracy Ilya Somin Wins Major Victory Over Unconstitutional Tariffs — Institute for Humane Studies Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter — Ilya Somin, Stanford University Press More from Liberalism.org Liberalism's Uneasy Relationship with Democracy — Ilya Somin Federal Courts, Local Wrongs: Growing Federal Power Means Less Accountability — Radley Balko

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