S2:E8: Walter Russell Mead | Is the liberal order crumbling or functioning as we should expect?
Walter Russell Mead and Duncan Moench greatly disagree on whether the First World War was a murky battle between two equally imperfect and imperialist...
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Conversations with prominent scholars, writers, and thinkers about the American political tradition and its future.
S2:E7: Robert Putnam | Can Americans ever see each other as family again?
Why did American culture build strong community ties in the second quarter of the 20th century only to have it all unravel in the mid-1960s — did imm...
S2:E6: Yascha Mounk | What good might come from populism’s rise? A tense conversation
Two scholars of political thought with highly contrasting perspectives (and totally different backgrounds) explore what promise the rise of populism m...
S2:E5: Tomás Jiménez | "Build a Wall to Mexico" - Wait, Why? Mexicans Aren't Even Coming Anymore
Has Mexican American immigration been substantively different from German or Irish immigration to the United States — or, is it merely newer? Dr. B. D...
S2:E4: Reihan Salam | The Trade-offs to Mass Immigration
The Manhattan Institute's Reihan Salam joins Duncan Moench to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of mass immigration. When low-skill workers cal...
S2:E3: Ramesh Ponurru | What would a second Trump presidency mean?
National Review Senior Editor Ramesh Ponurru joins Duncan Moench to discuss whether the US is in the midst of a "Cold Civil War." Are Bernie's support...
S2:E2: David Leonhardt | Is Warren "Hillary 2.0"? Are concerns over plastic straws virtue signaling at its worst?
New York Times writer David Leonhardt joins Duncan Moench to debate how best to conceptualize climate change, why the center-left media doesn’t cover ...
S2:E1: Harvey Mansfield - the Ivy League's Last Conservative - on Cancel Culture
Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University professor and political philosophy scholar, joins Duncan Moench to discuss being the last (explicitly) conservati...
S1:EP12: Musa Al Gharbi | The Actual Beneficiaries of “White Privilege” and Misconceptions of Trump’s Supporters
Al Gharbi’s remarkable life story and the smear campaign that drove him from Univ. of Arizona (5:30); How getting attacked by Fox News spurred his exp...
S1:EP11: Notions of Innocence and Stain in Contemporary Politics with Joshua Mitchell
How he knew Trump would win before anyone else (3:00); Identity politics (IP) as the fig leaf covering the obscene wealth of liberal elites (7:00); gl...