Explore the addictive nature of outrage and political hobbyism on social media. Discuss the weaponization of social media and the lack of gatekeepers. Examine the dominance of negative and divisive content online. Explore the fixation on small differences between Millennials and Gen Z. Share personal experiences of going viral and facing both praise and backlash. Discuss the hypersexualized portrayal of women in comic book art. Critique specific controversial tweets and discuss online controversies.

How robust is liberal democracy worldwide? Why do authoritarian countries like China, Iran and Russia seem to be struggling right now? How safe is democracy in the developed world? Francis Fukuyama joins the podcast to discuss how the ideas from his book 'The End of History' apply to what we're seeing in geopolitics today. We discuss what capital-H History is really about, whether neoliberalism is to blame for the rise of authoritarianism in recent decades, the contradictions that give strong states inherent weaknesses, and what he's watching for to see if the world might experience another wave of democratization. Recommended Reading: American Purpose - https://www.americanpurpose.com/ Persuasion - https://www.persuasion.community/ The UnPopulist - https://www.theunpopulist.net/ Frankly Fukuyama - https://www.americanpurpose.com/topics/frankly-fukuyama/   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@cnliberalism.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject   Join a local chapter at https://cnliberalism.org/become-a-member/

The fourth episode in our series on Effective Altruism focuses on fighting malaria.  Jeremiah is joined by Rob Mather, founder and CEO of the Against Malaria Foundation. They discuss why bed nets are such an effective intervention for stopping the spread of malaria, AMF's approach to data and how we can prove our dollars are making a difference, and the future of malaria as we race to develop new technologies like gene-edited mosquitos and vaccines. Recommended resources:  http://againstmalaria.org/   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@cnliberalism.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject   Join a local chapter at https://cnliberalism.org/become-a-member/

Coming out of the 2022 midterm elections, what's going to happen as Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump both prepare to run for president in 2024?  Tim Miller of The Bulwark joins the podcast to discuss this upcoming GOP civil war.  What are the issues where Trump and DeSantis might attack each other? Who are the groups they have to appeal to?  What do the midterm results mean for the future of Trump-style politics? Recommended reading: Why We Did It - https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Did-Travelogue-Republican/dp/0063161478 The Triad - https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/ Weapons of Mass Delusion - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/688795/weapons-of-mass-delusion-by-robert-draper/ The Neoliberal Subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/   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@cnliberalism.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject   Join a local chapter at https://cnliberalism.org/become-a-member/

Elon Musk has owned Twitter for less than a month, and the company is already in chaos.  Is Elon crazy, or crazy like a fox? Joining the show to discuss is Mike Masnick, founder of Techdirt.  Jeremiah and Mike discuss why content moderation is so difficult at scale, debate whether Mastodon can be a real Twitter replacement, discuss Elon's erratic and dumb moves since buying Twitter, as they try to figure out whether or not Twitter might die. Recommended sources: Techdirt and the Techdirt Podcast - https://www.techdirt.com/edition/podcast/ Money Stuff - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthew-s-levine Chancery Daily - https://www.chancerydaily.com/ Copia Gaming - https://copia.is/gaming/   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@cnliberalism.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject   Join a local chapter at https://cnliberalism.org/become-a-member/

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 increase the supply of those things?  And most importantly - how can we build a winning political coalition for the ideas that will increase supply and build abundance? Suggested reading: The Abundance Agenda - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/scarcity-crisis-college-housing-health-care/621221/ NYTimes interview with Suraj Patel - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/13/opinion/suraj-patel-nyt-interview.html   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@cnliberalism.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject   Join a local chapter at https://cnliberalism.org/become-a-member/

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 York, and where politics is likely to go from here.   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@cnliberalism.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject   Join a local chapter at https://cnliberalism.org/become-a-member/

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 much time and money to the bureaucratic process of filling out the paperwork? All this and more discussed as Jeremiah and Andrew talk about a better way forward to protect the environment.   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@cnliberalism.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject   Join a local chapter at https://cnliberalism.org/become-a-member/

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.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@cnliberalism.org Follow us at: https://twitter.com/ne0liberal https://www.instagram.com/neoliberalproject/ https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject   Join a local chapter at https://cnliberalism.org/become-a-member/

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 address this issue without falling into right wing fantasies of biological determinism and a return to a more sexist time? Recommended reading: Of Boys and Men - https://www.brookings.edu/book/of-boys-and-men/ The Boys and Men Project - https://www.brookings.edu/series/boys-and-men/ Boys and Sex - https://www.peggyorenstein.com/boysandsex The Tenuous Attachments of Working Class Men - https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.33.2.211   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