Out of the Jaws

David Griscom is a writer, the author of The Myth of Red Texas, host of The Jacobin Show, and Texan. Today he joins Ryan and Adam to talk about the current race, Texas's surprising political history, and the derangement of the Texas GOP in lockstep with the national GOP. Out of the Jaws is a series produced by Liberal Currents. Explore more of our work at liberalcurrents.com.

Today on a special episode of Out of the Jaws, Adam speaks with Mike DeCillis, candidate for the 11th congressional district in New York, where he faces incumbent Republican Nicole Malliotakis. Malliotakis won her first race with 53% of the vote in 2020, then 62% in 2022 and 64% in 2024. Does DeCillis really stand a chance? The DNC clearly does not think so, as they have all but abandoned the dist...

YouTube news commentator Jesse Dollemore joins Ryan and Adam to talk about his personal journey, the lunatics in the evangelical right and their avatar of death Pete Hegseth, the possibility of a blue Texas, how each of them understand their roles as media figures in the fight against fascism, and more. You can find Jesse Dollemore on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@dollemoreIf you enjoy shows...

Independent war journalist and streamer Dylan Burns joins hosts Ryan Geddie and Adam Gurri to talk about his experience embedding in Ukraine since the early months of the war. They discuss his journalistic heroes, how radically the battlefield has changed since 2022 (and what it means to be "the most transparent battlefield in history"), the politics of military and foreign policy, and Dylan's per...

Attorney, podcaster, and political commentator Charles Star (Ugarles on Bluesky) join Ryan and Adam to discuss the Texas drag ban and the federal courts' handling of it, anti-left and anti-trans coverage in centrist media, the internal neuroses of the American elite, and more. Resources https://bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/ugarles https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...

Ryan Geddie and Adam Gurri discuss one of Ryan’s recent videos, in which he illustrates and analyzes the left-of-center new media ecosystem using the metaphor of ocean life surrounding a coral reef. See Ryan’s video on this here: https://youtu.be/BBVH65RdZqM?is=vxqwhVYzloivm1uK Adam’s essay which he refers to here: https://www.liberalcurrents.com/elites-need-some-emotional-distance-from-social-med...

Today Ryan and Adam are joined by Joshua Eakle, Co-Founder of Project Liberal and Managing Director of Development and Communications at the Institute for Humane Studies. They talk to him about his origins in libertarian organizing, his childhood in a Pentecostal community, and his journey into the liberal, pro-democracy coalition. Resources https://projectliberal.org/ https://www.liberalism.org/...

Today on a special episode of Out of the Jaws, Adam speaks with Brad Lander, candidate for the 10th congressional district in New York, former New York City Comptroller, city council member, and general fixture of New York City politics going back decades. They talk about what the pro-democracy coalition can and should be doing today, what the new Congress should do next year, who should be prosec...

Are liberalism and socialism completely incompatible? Ryan and Adam talk with University of Michigan Lecturer in Political Science Matthew McManus and Liberal Currents co-founder and Associate Editor Paul Crider about their book, What Is Liberal Socialism? What does each one lack that the other one offers? To what extent is it all just arbitrary boundary drawing around particular thinkers and idea...

The old institutions are being eroded and colonized by new media personalities. Is this apocalyptic or is it the path to a more hopeful future? Ryan and Adam talk with Sam Drzymala about this and more today. Sam is an expert on political new media, having founded and run organizations in that space such as Progressive Victory and, most recently At Dawn Campaigns. The trio agree that streamers in p...

The Reconstruction Papers is a new collection published by Liberal Currents, whose authors aim to provide a comprehensive vision for the future after Trump. Discussing this with Ryan and Adam today is Samantha Hancox-Li, Executive Editor of Liberal Currents and host of the Neon Liberalism podcast. The discussion ranges from military and foreign policy to trade policy, to constitutional politics, t...

Ryan and Adam are joined by the Soy Pill (Niels Griedel) to discuss his political awakening, navigating the new media, whether Adam is legacy media or merely old new media, the value of philosophy or lack thereof, the existential problem of climate change and the politics it implies, and much more.

Is abolishing ICE the most important path to fixing the civil service? Can socialism and liberalism be reconciled? Are neither equipped to speak to the values and feelings that animate nationalists? Ryan and Adam are joined by Liberal Currents contributing editor Silvaria Lysandra Zemaitis, who discusses these topics, how we can fix the economy by taxing rents, and more.

Has liberalism forgotten civic virtue? Liberal commentator Ryan Geddie and Liberal Currents publisher Adam Gurri talk with Canadian political commentator, writer and YouTuber J. J. McCullough about the place of virtue in modern liberalism, the modern conservative movement, Tim Miller, and much more.

The Roberts Court has been sabotaging liberal democracy since long before Donald Trump's 2016 victory. Liberal commentator Ryan Geddie and Liberal Currents publisher Adam Gurri walk through this history here on the first episode of their new podcast, "Out of the Jaws."