Shows
The Liberal Patriot with Ruy TeixeiraCan the Right Make Social Democracy Great Again?Welcome to another year of The Liberal Patriot Podcast! We kick off 2025 with Sohrab Ahmari, formerly of Compact and now the U.S. editor of UnHerd. Sohrab fills us in on his grand plans for the new gig and walks us through his most recent book Tyranny, Inc. We chat about the administrative state, American manufacturing, and whether the labor movement can find an institutional home in the Republican Party. We conclude with a discussion of the Democrats’ “anti-normative normality” and Sohrab gives us a sneak peak of his forthcoming book. Get full access to The Libera...
2025-01-1041 min
The Ezra Klein ShowThe End of the Obama CoalitionThe Democratic Party has been hemorrhaging nonwhite and working-class voters. There are a lot of theories about why that has been happening, blaming it on the party’s ideas or messaging or campaign tactics. But I think the problem might be deeper than that — rooted in the structure of the Democratic Party itself.Michael Lind is a columnist at Tablet magazine, a co-founder of New America and the author of “The New Class War: Saving Democracy From the Managerial Elite.” He argues that the Democratic Party in recent years has become more beholden to special-interest nonprofits, which claim to...
2024-11-131h 04
The Mona Charen ShowMoral IllnessRuy Teixeira joins the panel to evaluate the coming election, the attack on Paul Pelosi, and the argument that both Biden and Harris should stand down.
highlights/lowlights:
Mona's
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/sohrab-ahmari-thinks-that-the-anti?r=6jqoy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Linda's
https://quillette.com/2022/10/27/fdr-and-the-holocaust/
Bill's
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/03/1133848992/ethiopia-tigray-war-peace-deal-truce-eritrea
Damon's
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/02/world/middleeast/israel-election-netanyahu.html
Ruy:
https...
2022-11-041h 01