It’s been a hot minute since the last episode. So let me start by telling you what’s been going on, because it actually tees up today’s conversation. The short version is, I’ve been neck deep in getting a very cool new project ready for launch. It’s called Liberalism.org and is an online magazine of liberal ideas, which I’m leading in collaboration with my colleagues at the Institute for Humane Studies. Depending on when you’re listening to this, it might already have launched, because it’s scheduled to go live on March 12th. Regardless, you can get on the mailing list by heading to Liberalism.org.

As part of this project, I’m hosting a new bi-weekly podcast called The Liberalism.org Show. It’ll be half hour interviews with contributors to the site, which means interviews with some of the most interesting minds in liberalism today. You can look for that wherever you get your podcasts.

All of this just swamped me, and I had to take a step back from ReImagining Liberty. I’m glad you stuck around through the hiatus.

And to bring us back, I’m actually joined today by one of those colleagues on Liberalism.org, Jason Canon. He’s Director of Public Scholarship at the Institute for Humane Studies, and for at least the last year, he and I have been talking non-stop about a shared intellectual project about what it means to think of liberalism as a practice. Or a set of practices. You’ve heard me discuss versions of this in quite a lot of prior episodes, but today I wanted to bring Jason on for a deep dive, and to establish a foundation for future conversations.

We talk about what it means to view something as a practice, how practice theory plugs holes in liberal theorizing, why this approach is largely overlooked by contemporary philosophers of liberalism, and what that oversight means missing out on. I loved this conversation with Jason.

Produced by ⁠Landry Ayres⁠. Podcast art by ⁠Sergio R. M. Duarte⁠. Music by ⁠Kevin MacLeod⁠.

The rise of Nick Fuentes. The self-immolation of the Heritage Foundation. The Great Replacement conspiracy theorizing endemic on X. The right very clearly has a significant antisemitism problem, with anti-Jewish hate spreading from the fringes, to the conservative mainstream, and out into the broader political culture. And this hate interacts with, supports, and leads to further hate, directed at other groups, including misogyny, racism, and ethnic and religious nationalism.

On today’s episode, I’ve brought on Elad Nehorai. He’s a writer, activist, and social and political commentator, and founder of Justice Marketing. We have a deep conversation about the role antisemitism plays in the ideologies of the contemporary right, how their continued use of X is normalizing such views among American journalists and media elites, and the prospect of a post-Trump GOP drifting even further into outright neo-Nazism.

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Produced by ⁠Landry Ayres⁠. Podcast art by ⁠Sergio R. M. Duarte⁠. Music by ⁠Kevin MacLeod⁠.