The New Liberal Podcast

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 UV lights play a role? And how can we use these technologies to stop the next pandemic before it happens?  We discuss all this and more! Suggested resources: 1 Day Sooner - https://www.1daysooner.org/ Operation Nasal Vaccine - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.add9947   To make sure you hear every episode, join our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/neoliberalproject. Patrons get access to exclusive bonus episodes, our sticker-of-the-month club, and our insider Slack.  Become a supporter today! Got questions for the Neoliberal Podcast?  Send them to mailbag@neoliberalproject.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject   Join a local chapter at https://neoliberalproject.org/join

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 - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRRDti3Xgb8lLdClZdQa1qQ Meduza News - https://meduza.io/en To make sure you hear every episode, join our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/neoliberalproject. Patrons get access to exclusive bonus episodes, our sticker-of-the-month club, and our insider Slack.  Become a supporter today! Got questions for the Neoliberal Podcast?  Send them to mailbag@neoliberalproject.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject   Join a local chapter at https://neoliberalproject.org/join

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 those risks? Is technology developing too quickly and exposing us to existential risk? Suggested Reading: The Council on Strategic Risks - https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/ George Washington University's National Security Archives - https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/ 'The Dead Hand' by David Hoffman To make sure you hear every episode, join our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/neoliberalproject. Patrons get access to exclusive bonus episodes, our sticker-of-the-month club, and our insider Slack.  Become a supporter today! Got questions for the Neoliberal Podcast?  Send them to mailbag@neoliberalproject.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject   Join a local chapter at https://neoliberalproject.org/join

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 around the 'long 20th century', and why economic growth is the most important lens for understanding human history in the last 150 years. Recommended reading: Slouching Towards Utopia - https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/j-bradford-delong/slouching-towards-utopia/9780465019595/ What We Owe the Future - https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/william-macaskill/what-we-owe-the-future/9781541618633/ The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-neoliberal-order-9780197519646?cc=us&lang=en& To make sure you hear every episode, join our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/neoliberalproject. Patrons get access to exclusive bonus episodes, our sticker-of-the-month club, and our insider Slack.  Become a supporter today! Got questions for the Neoliberal Podcast?  Send them to mailbag@neoliberalproject.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject   Join a local chapter at https://neoliberalproject.org/join

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 Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/neoliberalproject. Patrons get access to exclusive bonus episodes, our sticker-of-the-month club, and our insider Slack.  Become a supporter today! Got questions for the Neoliberal Podcast?  Send them to mailbag@neoliberalproject.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject   Join a local chapter at https://neoliberalproject.org/join

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 of the meat we eat? Which methods are the most cost-effective ways to help reduce animal suffering? We dive into why many effective altruists are working in this space and what they're doing to help farm animals around the world. Suggested Reading: Farm Animal Welfare Newsletter - https://www.openphilanthropy.org/content-type/farm-animal-welfare-newsletters/ Eating Animals - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_Animals To make sure you hear every episode, join our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/neoliberalproject. Patrons get access to exclusive bonus episodes, our sticker-of-the-month club, and our insider Slack.  Become a supporter today! Got questions for the Neoliberal Podcast?  Send them to mailbag@neoliberalproject.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject   Join a local chapter at https://neoliberalproject.org/join

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 you hear every episode, join our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/neoliberalproject. Patrons get access to exclusive bonus episodes, our sticker-of-the-month club, and our insider Slack.  Become a supporter today! Got questions for the Neoliberal Podcast?  Send them to mailbag@neoliberalproject.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject   Join a local chapter at https://neoliberalproject.org/join

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 place there matter for the real world. Follow:  https://twitter.com/MaiaMindel Blog:  https://someunpleasant.substack.com/ To make sure you hear every episode, join our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/neoliberalproject. Patrons get access to exclusive bonus episodes, our sticker-of-the-month club, and our insider Slack.  Become a supporter today! Got questions for the Neoliberal Podcast?  Send them to mailbag@neoliberalproject.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject   Join a local chapter at https://neoliberalproject.org/join

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 things he's read this year. Links to relevant podcasts on books in this episode: Strength in Numbers - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-past-and-future-of-polling-ft-g-elliott-morris/id1390384827?i=1000569871956 Arbitrary Lines - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-arbitrary-lines-of-zoning-ft-m-nolan-gray/id1390384827?i=1000566786555 Streets of Gold - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/streets-of-gold-ft-leah-boustan-ran-abramitzky/id1390384827?i=1000563792744 Why We Fight - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-we-fight-ft-chris-blattman/id1390384827?i=1000558708278 Fixer Upper - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fixing-americas-housing-ft-jenny-schuetz/id1390384827?i=1000551981593 To make sure you hear every episode, join our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/neoliberalproject. Patrons get access to exclusive bonus episodes, our sticker-of-the-month club, and our insider Slack.  Become a supporter today! Got questions for the Neoliberal Podcast?  Send them to mailbag@neoliberalproject.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject   Join a local chapter at https://neoliberalproject.org/join

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 election modelers and pollsters are trying to correct for those misses. Further reading: A Troubled Birth, Susan Herbst - https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo115836821.html https://gelliottmorris.substack.com/   To make sure you hear every episode, join our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/neoliberalproject. Patrons get access to exclusive bonus episodes, our sticker-of-the-month club, and our insider Slack.  Become a supporter today! Got questions for the Neoliberal Podcast?  Send them to mailbag@neoliberalproject.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject   Join a local chapter at https://neoliberalproject.org/join