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Welcome to Zooming In. I'm Berny Belvedere, senior editor of The UnPopulist. I'm joined today by Raymond Roberts, author of A Democratic and Republican Faith, a theologically serious and hopeful book that recovers what a
Our latest installment of The UnPopulist Live took place on Friday, April 24, when senior editor Berny Belvedere sat down with Center for New Liberalism co-founder Jeremiah Johnson and New York City New Liberals politica
Welcome to Zooming In at The UnPopulist. The last few weeks have been, to put it mildly, politically difficult for the president—as his draconian deportation crackdown, the Iran war, soaring oil prices, and inflation cra
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Listen to Zooming In at The UnPopulist in your favorite podcast app: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | RSS | YouTube With the Iran war expanding and President Donald Trump’s public behavior growing more errati
This is Zooming In, and I’m Tom Shull, survey research director of the Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism, the parent organization of The UnPopulist. American politics has always featured verbal jabs—ofte
Welcome back to Zooming In at The UnPopulist. The Trumpist right has a very specific vision of masculinity—one built on violence, domination, and a kind of romanticized manual labor. It’s a vision they promote loudly, an
Listen to Zooming In at The UnPopulist in your favorite podcast app: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | RSS | YouTube New Yorker staff writer and economist John Cassidy joins The UnPopulist's Berny Belvedere to
The first year of Donald J. Trump’s second term as the president of the United States has been not only tumultuous for America but also the rest of the world. Just as at home, he has disregarded existing international in
Today, we have Editor-in-Chief Shikha Dalmia in conversation with two of the foremost thinkers of our time, Frank Fukuyama, an American political theorist and public intellectual best known for The End of History and the
Immigration enforcement is the dominant focus of Donald Trump’s second term. He promised to get tough, and he has. Many who voted for him because this issue was important to them believed he would mainly crack down on cr
America’s religious landscape has always been complicated, but something striking is happening inside conservative Christianity today. A movement that once spoke the language of scripture and personal faith is now increa
A post-Trump America may feel distant right now, but the work of imagining what a liberal reconstruction could look like has already begun. After years of executive overreach, collapsing guardrails, and an unprecedented
For decades, American universities have been seen as bastions of free inquiry, attracting students and scholars from around the world. But what happens when this openness creates vulnerabilities? How do authoritarian reg
The MAGA movement was once an insurgency within the Republican Party. Now, it is the party. But more than just a political takeover; this shift is the result of the consolidation of a movement defined by hostility toward
Listen to Zooming In at The UnPopulist in your favorite podcast app: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | RSS | YouTube Landry Ayres: Welcome back to Zooming In at The UnPopulist. I’m Landry Ayres. We find oursel
At a recent conference at the Heterodox Academy, an organization founded in 2016 to promote viewpoint diversity on college campuses and defend academic freedom from the “woke threat,” attendees grappled with the new thre
For decades, many observers held onto an optimism that, despite occasional setbacks, the arc of history inevitably bent towards a richer, freer, and better-governed world. However, the political turbulence witnessed acro
Academia finds itself at a critical juncture, navigating internal debates over the lack of intellectual diversity and too much in the thrall of prevailing orthodoxies, while simultaneously facing unprecedented external p
For generations, the idea of American liberty has been synonymous with limited government and individual freedoms. Yet, since the Founding, the reach of state surveillance has grown exponentially, often shrouded in secre
Jamelle Bouie
columnist and YouTube commentator · The New York Times
1 appearance on this show
Bill Kristol
The Bulwark
2 appearances on this show
John Cassidy
The New Yorker
1 appearance on this show
Anne Applebaum
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian · Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
1 appearance on this show
Francis Fukuyama
Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow · Stanford University
1 appearance on this show
Tyler Cowen
economics professor · George Mason University
1 appearance on this show
Andy Craig
Adhabit
2 appearances on this show
Sarah McLaughlin
Liberty
1 appearance on this show
Jason Wilson
Podcast Producer, Spiritual Dream Coach and CEO · Cave of Adullam Transformational Academy
1 appearance on this show
Radley Balko
Washington Post columnist, investigative reporter, author
1 appearance on this show
Charlie Sykes
1 appearance on this show
Patrick Eddington
senior fellow in Homeland Security and Civil Liberties · Cato Institute
1 appearance on this show
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