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An audiobook adaptation of an essay collection produced by Liberal Currents. This collection brings together experts in a number of fields to offer bold visions for a post-Trump, liberal democratic America.
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Signup to Generate a PitchAn audiobook adaptation of an essay collection produced by Liberal Currents. This collection brings together experts in a number of fields to offer bold visions for a post-Trump, liberal democratic America.
The Reconstruction Papers is hosted by Liberal Currents. The show has published 16 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Return of Constitutional Politics" (30 October 2026, 16 minutes), "The Ark And The Deluge" (29 October 2026, 27 minutes), and "Remember Who You Are, Liberal" (28 October 2026, 26 minutes).
The Reconstruction Papers publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 32 minutes across 16 episodes.
Booking probability for The Reconstruction Papers is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Reconstruction Papers requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Reconstruction Papers's contact route on record: public web form.
Liberal Currents hosts The Reconstruction Papers, a news podcast with 16 episodes published.
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Episode #22
Written by lawyer and Liberal Currents contributing editor Adam Rust, read by Tessa Flannery. This essay walks through the necessary role of constitutional politics, and the more limited role of constitutional law, in...
Episode #21
Written by Liberal Currents contributing editor and student of intellectual history Guillaume A.W. Attia, read by Tessa Flannery. Attia looks at the confident and militant history of liberalism from the French...
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Written by Liberal Currents executive editor Samantha Hancox-Li, read by Tessa Flannery. Hancox-Li closes the collection with a discussion of liberalism, the value system motivating this entire project. Liberalism is...
Episode #19
Written by Y. L. al-Sheikh, read by Tessa Flannery. Provides an ambitious rethinking of foreign policy from the perspective of America's relationship to international institutions, rather than of our own domestic ones.
Episode #18
Written by the pseudonymous Secretary of Defense Rock, a military and international security expert who cannot write under his own name for professional reasons, read by Tessa Flannery. Rock has a bold vision for...
Episode #17
Written by University of Iowa F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor of Sociology Victor Ray, read by Tessa Flannery. Ray surveys the Trump administration’s destruction of the post-Civil Rights racial integration...
Written by Climate and Community Institute Senior Fellow Moira Birss, read by Tessa Flannery. Birss dives into the difficult issue of insurance and risk mitigation in climate-vulnerable parts of the country. Her...
Episode #15
Written by Pulaski Institution president & CEO and Liberal Currents contributing editor Alan Elrod, read by Tessa Flannery. Elrod proposes an ambitious federal national service program to overcome the erosion of civil...
Written by Michigan State education professor Brendan Cantwell, read by Tessa Flannery. Cantwell explains the accumulated difficulties that institutions of higher education faced in America before the present crisis...
Episode #13
Written by associate professor of political science and the Herbert Kurz Chair of Constitutional Rights at CUNY Brooklyn College Anna Law, read by Tessa Flannery. Law writes about the desperately needed reforms to our...
Episode #12
Written by author and analyst Jude Doyle, read by Tessa Flannery. Doyle explores the question of gender and outlines a liberal vision of how the state should relate to this deeply personal matter, from education to...
Written by Analogue Group founder Aishwarya Khanduja and Executive Director of the Good Science Project Stuart Buck, read by Tessa Flannery. Khanduja and Buck present a bold rethinking of the enterprise of American...
Episode #10
Written by economist Ed Dolan, read by Tessa Flannery. Dolan lays out a vision for rules-based fiscal policy, noting that the credibility that such approaches provide have helped finance generous social democratic...
Written by Steve Randy Waldman, read by Tessa Flannery. Waldman talks about the perils of the unbalanced trade regime that America has run for decades, and offers an elegant solution for it. The imbalances of foreign...
Episode #8
Written by economics graduate and Master's student in urban economics Maia Mindel, read by Tessa Flannery. Mindel diagnoses the failures of our current economic regime, which are in no small part responsible for the...
Episode #7
Written by Yale University political theorist and lecturer Kevin J. Elliott, read by Tessa Flannery. This essay discusses the ways we might bring the Senate more in line with the logic of a system that is overall...
Episode #6
Written by Liberal Currents publisher Adam Gurri, read by Tessa Flannery. Drawing inspiration both from peer countries with federalist systems developed after America's and from the basic logic of the Fifteenth...
Episode #5
Written by constitutional lawyer Robert Black, read by Tessa Flannery. Black examines the hard problem of amending the Constitution—in particular, the hard problem of fixing the very process by which the Constitution is...
Episode #4
Written by attorney and mediator Judith Starr, read by Tessa Flannery. A proposal to rebuild the system of watchdog agencies that were put in place after Watergate, as well as to reform the Privacy Act. The...
Episode #3
Written by Marquette University law professor Patrick J. Sobkowski , read by Tessa Flannery. If there is anything we have learned from the Trump era, it is that the checks on executive unilateralism have all but...
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