Are Children People?
Children are a problem for liberalism -- and it’s one you can see in everything from school-board wars to fights over “indoctrination.” If all individuals are free and equal, endowed with rights by th...
26 Jan 1h 13min
Why NIMBYs Oppose Housing (with Chris Elmendorf)
NIMBYism is usually explained as selfishness: homeowners protecting property values, or neighbors who just hate change. But a growing body of research suggests something simpler and harder to argue wi...
19 Jan 1h 7min
Matthew Yglesias on What Went Wrong with Modern Liberalism?
If we want to address racism, should we talk more about race – or less?Matthew Yglesias argues liberals undermined their own principles when politics shifted from judging people as individuals to sort...
12 Jan 1h 23min
We're Getting Frog-Boiled by AI (with Kelsey Piper)
A lot of Americans are uneasy about AI, and so are many of the people building it. Yet we keep scaling and deploying these systems faster than we’re building rules to govern them. Why? The Argument's...
6 Jan 1h 8min
Best Of: Liberalism Under Pressure w/ Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, & Derek Thompson
At the end of the year, I wanted to revisit our very first podcast conversation with some of my favorite liberal journalists. In our very first live show in Washington, D.C., Derek Thompson, Ezra Klei...
29 Dec 20251h 34min
How Liberal Elite Failure Fueled Far-Right Populism
Why is far-right populism on the rise? Political scientist Gabriele Gratton has a controversial theory: For decades, technocrats moved policy decisions — on austerity, climate, and more – away from th...
22 Dec 20251h 18min
America’s Reading Crisis: What Mississippi Got Right
America's literacy problem is a policy choice. As schools shifted away from phonics toward guessing-based instruction, a generation of kids paid the price. But a quiet reversal is underway in an unexp...
15 Dec 20251h 22min
Why We Feel Screwed: Immigration, Growth, and the Zero-Sum Mindset
Why do so many people believe immigrants are screwing them even when the evidence says otherwise? Economist Sahil Chinoy joins host Jerusalem Demsas to break down his massive 20,000-person study on ze...
8 Dec 202551min
