The New Liberal Podcast

What is the Abundance Agenda and how do we get there? Atlantic writer and author Derek Thompson and former Congressional candidate Suraj Patel join the show to discuss how to build an abundant society.  Are the problems we're facing problems of scarcity?  If the things we need like medical care, housing, and child care are getting scarcer and more expensive, why is the supply so low?  How can we i...

What happened Tuesday night?  PPI's National Political Director Sarah Paden joins the podcast to discuss the midterm election results and give a flash breakdown of what it means. Sarah and Jeremiah discuss Democrats overperforming, Trump's influence on the GOP and on independent voters, how redistricting and abortion influenced the election, the regional factors in Florida, the Midwest, and New Yo...

This week's episode is a joint episode with Andrew Heaton's podcast, The Political Orphanage.  Andrew and Jeremiah discuss NEPA, the National Environmental Policy Act, and why environmental permitting has gotten out of control.  Why does it take more than four years on average to simply finish an environmental review? Is NEPA even protecting the environment?  What are we losing by dedicating so mu...

It's time for another mailbag episode!  If you want your questions or ideas featured on the podcast, write in to mailbag@cnliberalism.org .  In this week's episode, Jeremiah answers questions about social media, activism, Adam Tooze, why the left hates free trade, Paul Krugman, democracy as a foreign policy goal, and much more!   To make sure you hear every episode, join our Patreon at https://www...

Richard Reeves, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of the new book  Of Boys and Men , joins the podcast to discuss what's gone wrong with boys and men in today's society. Why are boys struggling in school so badly? Why are labor market gender wage gaps closing, but educational gaps are widening?  What can we do to make sure boys don't fall even further behind? And how can we add...

It's the third episode in our series about Effective Altruisum, and Jeremiah is joined by Josh Morrison & Gavriel Kleinwaks of the organization 1 Day Sooner to discuss the future of pandemic policy. With Covid-19 now an ongoing fact of life, how can we best minimize the harms it will do over the medium to long term future? What role will new vaccine technologies play? Can better air filtration or...

Jeremiah is joined by Denis Malinin, a dissident Russian journalist living in New York City and running an independent Russian-language news service.  Denis joins the show to discuss his journey through Russian state media, why he quit to found his own independent news show, how Russia's propaganda machine works, and how regular Russians think about the war in Ukraine. Recommended: The Bureau/БЮРО...

It's the second episode in the Neoliberal Podcast's new series on Effective Altruism, the movement that tries to do the most good possible for the world.  Jeremiah welcomes Christine Parthemore to discuss catastrophic risks to humanity from nuclear and biological weapons.  How likely is it that nuclear weapons or bioweapons are actually used in the next 50 years?  What can be done to minimize thos...

The world is so much richer than it was 150 years ago that past generations might look at society today and declare it a utopia.  But how did we get here, and are we really living in utopia? Economist Brad DeLong joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Slouching Towards Utopia.  We discuss the key factors that allowed economic growth to explode around 1870, why Brad builds a grand narrative aro...

How did a solidly red state like Kansas end up voting against an abortion ban?  Ashley All, leader on the 'NO' campaign to ban abortion in Kansas, joins the podcast to discuss how they did it.  We discuss Kansas's unique political history, what kinds of messaging works in red areas of the country, and what this means for other fights in other states.   To make sure you hear every episode, join our...

Welcome to the first episode in the Neoliberal Podcast's new series on Effective Altruism, the movement that tries to do the most good possible for the world.  Jeremiah welcomes Lewis Bollard to the show to talk about animal welfare as an EA topic.  Why should people care about the suffering of animals vs the suffering of people?  How bad are conditions really in the factory farms that supply most...

Jeremiah is joined by Ben Ritz to debate the politics and policy behind Congress's recent slew of big bills - the CHIPS Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the PACT Act. Will the IRA actually reduce inflation?  Did Chuck Schumer pull a fast one on Mitch McConnell? Is the CHIPS Act as good as its proponents claim it is, or as bad as its detractors say?  We discuss all this and more! To make sure...

Argentinian economics blogger and 2022's Chief Neoliberal Shill, Maia Mindel joins the show to discuss Argentina's economy.  We talk about Argentina's history, why Argentina continually struggles with high inflation, defaults, and other economic disasters, and what policies could help bring them out of it.  We also talk about Econ Twitter and whether or not social media conversations that take pla...

Jeremiah recaps the best books from 2022. From those books covered on the podcast to the more obscure finds, from fiction to non-fiction, including biographies, academic works, humor, classic literature, science fiction and more, it's all here.  Jeremiah covers books on immigration, housing, the history of disease, venture capital, war, election modeling and storytelling, to bring you the best thi...

How wrong were the polls really in 2016 and 2020, and can we trust them in the current election cycle? Data journalist G Elliott Morris joins the show to discuss his new book 'Strength in Numbers' and discuss the state of the polling industry.  We talk about the philosophical case for why polling is important, the history of polls getting things wrong, polling misses in recent elections, and how e...

Left-leaning housing activists often discuss public housing as a solution to the housing shortage, but is this a good idea? Jeremiah and public housing advocate Paul Williams debate the role public housing should play in our response to the housing crisis.  Does public housing have advantages over private housing? Is public housing usually lower quality than market-rate housing, and if so who's to...

With tensions rising between liberal democracies and authoritarian regimes around the world, many Americans are looking to Congress to see how America can keep its technological and innovation edge.  Rep. Ami Bera joins the podcast to talk about the COMPETES Act and USICA, two bills aiming to do just that.  What's in these bills? Are they too bloated for their own good?  Will they help the US comp...

Comedy has gotten more political than ever in the last 10 years, but has politics made comedy worse?  Jeff Maurer, comedian and former writer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, joins the show to discuss political comedy and why it seems to be in decline.  What made Jon Stewart's Daily Show special in the early 2000s? Why haven't recent Daily Show clones been able to repeat that success?  Is c...

Almost every major city is defined by a set of zoning regulations - a map that says exactly which types of buildings can be built in which areas, and what you're allowed to use those buildings for.  M Nolan Gray, a city planner and author of the new book 'Arbitrary Lines', joins the show to discuss zoning.  How did our modern system of zoning develop in the 20th century?  What impact does zoning h...

With the recent wave of shootings across America, what can be done to address the violence?  Congressman Brad Schneider joins the podcast to talk about several ways to reduce gun violence and hate crimes.  We talk first about his Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act, which aims to prevent white-supremacist violence like the recent shooting in Buffalo, NY.  Why is this bill needed, what will it do, an...

The Libertarian Party has been taken over by a white nationalist group - how did this happen? Former LNC chairman Joseph Bishop-Henchman and Andy Craig of the CATO Institute join the show to discuss what's gone wrong with the Libertarian Party.  We talk about how this takeover happened, the history of racism in the libertarian movement, and what principled libertarians should do now that the alt-r...

Many economists favor climate policies like subsidizing green energy and taxing carbon, but how do we practically implement those policies? Kristin Eberhard & Shuting Pomerleau of the Niskanen Center join the podcast to talk about the complicated factors involved in climate policies like carbon taxes, carbon border adjustments, electric vehicle subsidies, and more! Further reading: Border Adjustme...

How do immigrants to America today compare to immigrants in the past? Are immigrants really able to come over and quickly find success? Are immigrants today assimilating at a different rate than previous generations?  Economists Leah Boustan and Ran Abramitzky join the show to discuss all this and more in their new book, Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success. We discuss how...

This week's episode is a joint episode with The New Bazaar Podcast. The New Bazaar is a podcast hosted by Cardiff Garcia (formerly of NPR's The Indicator) that discusses topics in economics, policy and politics. Cardiff interviewed me for an episode of The New Bazaar on modern neoliberalism: Where did we come from? What do we believe? Are we as bad as the critics say? We're releasing it on both th...

It's another mailbag episode!  Jeremiah takes listener questions on the Roe v Wade bombshell leak, which types of taxes neoliberals should support, neoliberalism in East Asia, why we talk about GDP so much, if the excesses of the left led to Trump, and much more. To get your question featured on the next mailbag episode, send your question or a comment to  mailbag@neoliberalproject.org .  Or, join...