Listen at: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | RSS Welcome to the inaugural episode of ReImagining Liberty. My goal for today’s conversation was to set the direction and tone of the whole ReImaginging Liberty podcast going forward. And to do that, I brought on my friend Cory Massimino (@corymassimino), a

Listen at: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | RSS One of the difficult, and interesting, questions a system of political liberty needs to deal with is how to approach differing conceptions of what the good life looks like and how people ought to behave. We can say that the government shouldn’

Listen at: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | RSS Does American conservatism still provide a home for liberty-minded ideas? Looking at the state of the modern, post-Trump Republican Party, as well as the intellectual centers of gravity among the American right, the picture’s rather discouraging. To get a better sense

Listen at: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | RSS Postmodernism, like Marxism and Critical Race Theory, has become a catch-all term for whatever upsets the right in the culture war. But what if, instead of destroying libs with logic and reason, the American right has become itself deeply postmodernist, rejecting ideas

Listen at: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | RSS Today we’re looking at Robert Nozick’s classic work of libertarian philosophy, Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Released in 1974, it’s the book that put libertarianism on the map within contemporary academic philosophy. Nozick argued for a strong conception of rights

Listen at: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | RSS Today’s episode begins with a discussion of how border militarization and foreign intervention create a feedback loop of increasing violence and restrictions on freedom. We then take those lessons and apply them to the broader question of how we should approach

Listen at: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | RSS When I was a scholar at the Cato Institute, interns frequently asked me for reading recommendations. My advice was typically to read books outside of the libertarian canon. This was for a couple of reasons. First, because understanding the ideas of those

Listen at: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | RSS Today’s episode is about transgender rights, and the growing cultural backlash among conservatives against the very idea of transgender identities. My guest is Kelly Wright (@anarchakelly), a Brooklyn-based writer and activist and an affiliate of the Center for a Stateless Society.

Listen at: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | RSS Cory Massimino (@corymassimino) is back on ReImagining Liberty to talk about the politics of radical freedom at their most radical. Namely, anarchism. I get asked every so often whether I’m an anarchist. My honest answer is I’m not sure. I