Huebner remembers episodes from his time in the White House, describes the conflicts between the moderate and conservative impulses of the administration, and assesses Nixon's key strengths as a speechmaker. He shares his insights into what it takes to be a successful presidential speechwriter, and reflects on how history will remember Nixon, for good and ill.
Aug 17
1 hr 2 min
As Joan Williams observes in her recent book Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back, as recently as 2010 Democrats still represented a majority of working-class districts. But in the decades since, the two parties have traded their political bases, with Democrats increasingly becoming the party of the college-educated professional classes; the percentage of Democrats who are college grads almost doubled between 1996 and 2018.
Jul 6
1 hr 6 min
Wooldridge recounts the history of liberalism and the difficulties it has encountered in addressing contemporary problems.
Apr 13
1 hr 14 min
Howard offers qualified approval of the Abundance movement that he in some ways anticipated by decades.
Mar 26
1 hr 5 min
Sargeant argues that liberal feminism — and American culture more generally — champions an ideal of freedom based in autonomy that is poorly suited to human beings as they are. Instead, she advocates for a culture that sees dignity in mutual dependence.
Feb 25
1 hr 1 min
Lindsey describes the “triple crisis of capitalism” that has brought material prosperity but also social disintegration, sputtering dynamism, and dysfunctional politics.
Feb 5
1 hr 3 min
Tonks argues that while New Liberals didn’t correctly diagnose the changes to the economy in all of its particulars, their policy vision retains considerable relevance to today’s politics — and particularly the discussion around the Abundance movement.
Jan 21
1 hr 25 min
Schultz concedes that liberalism set itself up for criticism in many ways, but nonetheless concludes that liberalism did not fall of its own weight—it was assassinated by its political opponents.
Dec 16, 2025
1 hr 18 min
In this podcast interview, Techau discusses the European reaction to Trump’s reelection, the likelihood of Germany’s being able to make the physical and psychological adjustments it would need in order to become the principal provider of conventional deterrence in Europe, the rise of anti-Americanism in Germany on both the left and right, and whether Europeans are capable of keeping peace on the continent without the help of the Americans.
Nov 13, 2025
1 hr 7 min
In this podcast discussion, Kimmage discusses the idea of the West — as a geopolitical and cultural concept rather than a geographic place.
Oct 23, 2025
1 hr 32 min
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