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What makes China tick? What animates the ruling Communist Party? What does Xi Jinpings third term as paramount leader portend? Elan Journo interviews Scott McDonald, a scholar of Chinese political

In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the recent attacks conducted by the Just Stop Oil activists and offer a moral and political evaluation of both the group

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Enrollment in college English departments isdeclining, with literature concentrations experiencing a particularly precipitous drop in student interest. This may sound like no great loss. Increasingly

In this episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss Liberalism and Its Discontents, a recent book by the well-known political scientist Francis Fukuyama. They analyze the b

In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the recent protests against the authoritarian regimes of Iran and Russia. They analyze the common causes that animate thes

In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer, Don Watkins, and Mike Mazza discuss Oxford philosophy professor William MacAskills new book, What We Owe the Future. The book advocates Longtermism, wh