Are We Beyond Peak Climate? with Ruy Teixeira

Tisha Schuller welcomes Ruy Teixeira, nonresident senior fellow at American Enterprise Institute (AEI) to the Energy Thinks podcast.

Ruy focuses on the transformation of party coalitions and the future of American electoral politics. Before joining AEI, he was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress from 2003 to 2022.

He is the author of many books, reports, and articles. He is the coauthor of The Emerging Democratic Majority, one of his most influential books, which was selected as one of the best books of the year by the Economist. Ruy is also often published including in the Atlantic, the American Prospect, National Review, the New Republic, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. He hosts “The Liberal Patriot” podcast and co-edits the blog on Substack. He is also a contributing writer at The Washington Post and The Free Press.

He holds a PhD and MS in sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His dissertation on declining voter turnout was published as Why Americans Don’t Vote: Turnout Decline in the United States, 1960–1984. His BA is from the University of Michigan.

Ruy is located in Washington, DC.

Mentioned in the episode:

The Liberal Patriot podcast: Ruy’s interviews with Marc Dunkelman and Derek Thompson.

Ruy’s piece published January 9, 2025: The Unstoppable Rise of Energy Realism.

Ruy’s AEI report with Yuval Levin published October 11, 2024: Politics Without Winners: Can Either Party Build a Majority Coalition? And another AEI report published from Ruy on May 10, 2023: From Environmentalism to Climate Catastrophism: A Democratic Story.

Ruy’s survey co-published with Roger Pielke Jr.: The Clean Energy Transition’s Voter Problem.

Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson.

Energy Thinks Podcast: Secret?! Practical Environmentalism with Matthew Yglesias.

Tisha’s Both of These Things Are True newsletter published on November 21, 2024: Practical Environmentalism Is Inevitable.

Watch the video on YouTube to see Tisha and Ruy discuss The Myth and The Moment.

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[Interview recorded on April 14, 2024]

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