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ReImagining Liberty

Aaron Ross Powell

The emancipatory and cosmopolitan case for radical social, political, and economic liberalism. Hosted by Aaron Ross Powell.

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097: The Right's Mainstreaming of Antisemitism (w/...

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2026/01/19

The rise of Nick Fuentes. The self-immolation of the Heritage Foundation. The Great Replacement conspiracy theorizing endemic on X. The right very clearly has a significant antisemitism problem, with anti-Jewish hate spreading from the fringes, to the conservative mainstream, and out into the broader political culture. And this hate interacts with, supports, and leads to further hate, directed at other groups, including misogyny, racism, and ethnic and religious nationalism.On today’s episode, I’ve

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[PREVIEW] 097: The Right's Mainstreaming of...

ReImagining Liberty ·

2026/01/10

The rise of Nick Fuentes. The self-immolation of the Heritage Foundation. The Great Replacement conspiracy theorizing endemic on X. The right very clearly has a significant antisemitism problem, with anti-Jewish hate spreading from the fringes, to the conservative mainstream, and out into the broader political culture. And this hate interacts with, supports, and leads to further hate, directed at other groups, including misogyny, racism, and ethnic and religious nationalism.On today’s episode, I’ve

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096: The Irrationality of Rationalists (w/ Samantha...

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2025/12/23

The ideologies that shape our world can be awfully weird. The one that combines the most influence with the most weirdness is arguably Rationalism, which grew out of backwater blogs to have the ears, and influence the minds, of people like Elon Musk and JD Vance.To talk about what Rationalism is, why we should care about its beliefs and arguments, and the impact it's had outside those strange corners of the internet, I've brought back Samantha Hancox-Li. She's a writer, game designer, editor

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[PREVIEW] 096: The Irrationality of Rationalists (w/...

ReImagining Liberty ·

2025/12/16

Now in early access for patrons. Unlock by becoming a patron here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/AaronRossPowellThe ideologies that shape our world can be awfully weird. The one that combines the most influence with the most weirdness is arguably Rationalism, which grew out of backwater blogs to have the ears, and influence the minds, of people like Elon Musk and JD Vance.To talk about what Rationalism is, why we should care about its beliefs and arguments, and the impact it's had outside those strange

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48:42

095: Opposition Media versus Complicit Media (w/ Adam...

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2025/12/15

Regimes falter when opposition media is strong. But America's legacy media has failed to live up to the dangers of the political environment and the authoritarianism of Trump's administration. We need stronger opposition media, making full-throated defenses of liberalism. But what does that look like?I'm joined today by Adam Gurri, founder and editor-in-chief of Liberal Currents, which is currently fundraising to take their indispensable publication to the next level. Adam and I talk about the state

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[PREVIEW] 095: Opposition Media versus Complicit...

ReImagining Liberty ·

2025/12/05

Regimes falter when opposition media is strong. But America's legacy media has failed to live up to the dangers of the political environment and the authoritarianism of Trump's administration. We need stronger opposition media, making full-throated defenses of liberalism. But what does that look like? I'm joined today by Adam Gurri, founder and editor-in-chief of Liberal Currents, which is currently fundraising to take their indispensable publication to the next level. Adam and I talk about the

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094: A New American Reconstruction (w/ Andy Craig and...

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2025/11/14

Welcome to ReImagining Liberty, a show about the emancipatory and cosmopolitan case for radical liberalism. I'm Aaron Ross Powell.It's still possible Trump succeeds in his project of authoritarian consolidation, but between the dramatic losses the GOP suffered in the elections on November 4th, the infighting in the conservative coalition, and the Epstein scandal, the prospects for that consolidation are looking more remote.All this makes the "How do we rebuild when Trump is behind us?" question feel

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093: The State of the Constitution (w/ Evan Bernick)

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2025/11/03

Today's episode is about the Constitution. It's a clear-eyed assessment of the assaults on it by the Trump administration, and a deep discussion of how we should think about constitutional interpretation and constitutional defense. Things aren't good. There's no denying that.But things also perhaps aren't as bad, at least not yet, as the most shrill of the doomers insist. To dig into all this, I'm joined by Evan Bernick. He's a law professor at Northern Illinois

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092: Liberalism's Common Ground (w/ Matt Zwolinski...

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2025/10/31

institutions now and to reform them when the time comes. As my friend, and past ReImagining Liberty guest, Jason Kuznicki says, "The future is a conversation." So today I've brought on two smart liberals, with very different ideas about what liberalism means in practice, for a conversation about common ground.Matthew McManus is an assistant professor at Spelman College, author of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism, and frequent ReImagining Liberty guest. Matt Zwolinski is a first

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093: The State of the Constitution (w/ Evan Bernick)

ReImagining Liberty ·

2025/10/27

Today's episode is about the Constitution. It's a clear-eyed assessment of the assaults on it by the Trump administration, and a deep discussion of how we should think about constitutional interpretation and constitutional defense. Things aren't good. There's no denying that.But things also perhaps aren't as bad, at least not yet, as the most shrill of the doomers insist. To dig into all this, I'm joined by Evan Bernick. He's a law professor at Northern Illinois University and has been one of the

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092: Liberalism's Common Ground (w/ Matt Zwolinski...

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2025/10/24

The future of liberalism depends upon the coalitions liberals can build, both to defend institutions now and to reform them when the time comes. As my friend, and past ReImagining Liberty guest, Jason Kuznicki says, "The future is a conversation." So today I've brought on two smart liberals, with very different ideas about what liberalism means in practice, for a conversation about common ground.Matthew McManus is an assistant professor at Spelman College, author of The Political Theory of Liberal

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091: Lessons from Left Market Anarchism (w/ Zak Woodman)

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2025/10/23

Today things get particularly radical, with an introduction to left market anarchism. I'm joined by Zak Woodman, host of the Mutual Exchange Radio podcast from the Center for a Stateless Society. We talk about whether we need a state at all, the dangers a powerful government poses, even if its values are arguably good ones, and why the aims of the left are better advanced through free markets than state control of the economy. We end with a call to take anarchist ideas seriously, even if you

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091: An Introduction to Left Market Anarchism (w/ Zak...

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2025/10/16

Today things get particularly radical, with an introduction to left market anarchism. I'm joined by Zak Woodman, host of the Mutual Exchange Radio podcast from the Center for a Stateless Society. We talk about whether we need a state at all, the dangers a powerful government poses, even if its values are arguably good ones, and why the aims of the left are better advanced through free markets than state control of the economy. We end with a call to take anarchist ideas seriously, even if you don't

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Bonus 003: Trump's Cult of Cruelty (w/ Radley Balko...

ReImagining Liberty ·

2025/09/29

I've got a special bonus episode for you today. In August, I attended the second annual Liberalism for the 21st Century conference in DC, organized by the Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism. That's the group that runs The UnPopulist, a publication I occasionally guest host for on their Zooming In podcast. I led a special live recording of that show at the conference, a conversation with journalist (and ReImagining Liberty guest) Radley Balko and commentator Charlie Sykes.I

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Bonus 003: Trump's Cult of Cruelty (w/ Radley Balko...

ReImagining Liberty ·

2025/09/29

I've got a special bonus episode for you today. In August, I attended the second annual Liberalism for the 21st Century conference in DC, organized by the Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism. That's the group that runs The UnPopulist, a publication I occasionally guest host for on their Zooming In podcast. I led a special live recording of that show at the conference, a conversation with journalist (and ReImagining Liberty guest) Radley Balko and commentator Charlie Sykes. I framed

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090: The Liberty Movement's Cultural Blind Spot (w/...

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2025/09/25

Join the ReImagining Liberty Patreon to get episodes a week early, listen ad-free, and become part of the Discord community. Learn more here: https://www.patreon.com/AaronRossPowellCathy Reisenwitz's "Sex and the State" is one of the handful of newsletters I consider indispensable. She writes, from what I'd label a radical liberal perspective, about culture and gender in ways I consistently find illuminating. And she was my guest on episode 50 of this show, on misogyny and the

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090: The Liberty Movement's Cultural Blind Spot (w/...

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2025/09/18

Cathy Reisenwitz's "Sex and the State" is one of the handful of newsletters I consider indispensable. She writes, from what I'd label a radical liberal perspective, about culture and gender in ways I consistently find illuminating. And she was my guest on episode 50 of this show, on misogyny and the political divide, which remains one of my favorites. So when she and I were recently chatting about the future of the liberty movement, and what's needed in our authoritarian moment, I wanted to get her

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089: The Shared Roots of Patriarchy and the State (w/...

ReImagining Liberty ·

2025/09/09

The political right, including more right-wing sorts of self-identified libertarians, are rather down on feminism. For those right-wingers, their hostility is understandable, because feminist insights challenge truths the right imagines to be natural and immutable, about equality, and gender, and hierarchy. But for radical liberals, feminist theory offers powerful tools for understanding and critiquing power and its use by the state.Today I have on my friend Kelly Vee for a discussion of these ideas

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089: Liberal Lessons from Radical Feminism (w/ Kelly...

ReImagining Liberty ·

2025/09/02

The political right, including more right-wing sorts of self-identified libertarians, are rather down on feminism. For those right-wingers, their hostility is understandable, because feminist insights challenge truths the right imagines to be natural and immutable, about equality, and gender, and hierarchy. But for radical liberals, feminist theory offers powerful tools for understanding and critiquing power and its use by the state.Today I have on my friend Kelly Vee for a discussion of these ideas

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088: The Far-Right's Favorite Thinkers (w/ Matt McManus)

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2025/09/01

The last episode of this show was about what ReImagining Liberty is. With frequent guest Cory Massimino, I talked about the values and perspective behind ReImagining Liberty's approach to liberalism, and how it's distinct from right-libertarianism. Today's episode is a nice companion to that. Not just because it also features a frequent guest, this time my friend Matt McManus, but because it runs further with the theme of distinctions. Namely, in this case, the ideas of the

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