What is the difference between a liberal, a neoliberal, a new liberal, and a progressive? In this joint episode with The Neoliberal Podcast, hosted by Jeremiah Johnson, you'll get all the answers you want and probably a few more besides. This is a pretty wide-ranging discussion on the state of liberalism in the world today, how to lean into identity politics, the threat from authoritarianism, what the term "neoliberal" means both historically and in contemporary politics, the case for race-conscious policies, why right now liberals basically have to be Democrats, politically speaking. Enjoy!
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Jeremiah Johnson
Jeremiah is the Policy Director at the Center for New Liberalism and host of The Neoliberal Podcast. Jeremiah has worked as a consultant for Ernst & Young and as the Director of Innovation for The NPD Group, specializing in predictive modeling and advanced analytics. He holds a Bachelor's in Economics and a Master's in Statistics, both from the University of Georgia.
More reading
Jeremiah and I mention and recommend some books along the way, including:
A Thousand Small Sanities by Adam Gopnik
The Neoliberal Mind by Madsen Pirie
All Minus One - Chapter 2 of On Liberty, edited by Jonathan Haidt and me, and illustrated beautifully by David Cicirelli
The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen
Anti-Pluralism by Bill Galston
John Stuart Mill, Victorian Firebrand. My biography of the great man, written before the world fell apart

Also mentioned
Steve Pearlstein's column on Dream Hoarders: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/01/is-it-inequality-of-income-we-care-about-or-inequality-of-opportunity/
My review of Gopnik's book for the Literary Review.
Matt Yglesias - Stop marketing race-blind policies as racial equity initiatives
My paper with Scott Winship on multigenerational race income gap, Long shadows: The Black-white gap in multigenerational poverty

The Dialogues Team
Creator: Richard Reeves
Research: Ashleigh Maciolek
Artwork: George Vaughan Thomas
Tech Support: Cameron Hauver-Reeves
Music: "Remember" by Bencoolen (thanks for the permission, guys!)

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