The Liberal Patriot with Ruy Teixeira

Feb 28 2025 23 ep. 51 mins 42
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A twice-a-month look at policy and politics with co-founder of The Liberal Patriot, Ruy Teixeira.

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Rethinking Racial Preferences

Feb 28 2025 43 mins  
Today I sit down with my friend Rick Kahlenberg, an expert on all things affirmative action and the author of the forthcoming book, Class Matters: The Fight to Get Beyond Race Preferences, Reduce Inequality, and Build Real Diversity at America’s Colleges. We kick off with a discussion of DEI trainings, the educational bureaucracy, and Trump’s latest executive orders. We then ch

Policing Perceptions: Crime Stats and Beyond

Feb 14 2025 60 mins  
This week I have the privilege of talking with Peter Moskos—a sociologist, former Baltimore City police officer, and expert on criminal justice and policing. His forthcoming book, Back from the Brink: Inside the NYPD and New York City's Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop, is a must read when it drops in March. We start off with a discussion of the latest crime statistics. How and whe

Feminism and Gender Ideology During Trump 2.0

Jan 24 2025 76 mins  
Today I chat with Lisa Selin Davis, the author of Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different, and Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead. We open with a discussion of Trump’s recent executive orders relating to sex and gender. What might the practical impact be? How should Democrats respond? Lisa talks us through the latest on

Can the Right Make Social Democracy Great Again?

Jan 10 2025 41 mins  
Welcome to another year of The Liberal Patriot Podcast! We kick off 2025 with Sohrab Ahmari, formerly of Compact and now the U.S. editor of UnHerd. Sohrab fills us in on his grand plans for the new gig and walks us through his most recent book Tyranny, Inc. We chat about the administrative state, American manufacturing, and whether the labor movement can find an institutional home

The Anti-Social Socialists

Dec 20 2024 43 mins  
In our final episode of the year, I’m joined by Dustin “Dino” Guastella, the director of operations for Teamsters Local 623 in Philadelphia and a research associate at the Center for Working-Class Politics. We kick off with a discussion of the Harris campaign’s “democracy” message and why it alienated working-class voters. Why did Democrats ditch economically populist m

Twilight of the Liberal Left?

Dec 06 2024 58 mins  
This week I sit down with Ross Barkan, a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine and expert on the American left who has his own great newsletter, Political Currents. We begin with a review of the legacy media’s performance during the 2024 election—and why you might have been better prepared for the results if you read the right people here on Substack. After extolli

TLP Podcast (w/ guest Patrick Ruffini)

Nov 15 2024 43 mins  
In our first post-election episode, I’m joined by Patrick Ruffini, a co-founder of Echelon Insights and the author of Party of the People: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP. We dive right into last week’s results, starting with how and why non-white voters shifted so much towards Trump. We cover the “cosmopolitan trap” that Democrats have fallen int

TLP Podcast (w/ guest Tim Shenk)

Oct 25 2024 56 mins  
Today I'm joined by Tim Shenk, a history professor at George Washington University and the author of Left Adrift: What Happened to Liberal Politics. We start back in 1992 with Bill Clinton's presidential campaign and the emergence of party strategists Stan Greenberg and Doug Schoen. We discuss competing approaches for coalition building—Greenberg's preference for New Deal-esque p

TLP Podcast (w/ guest Sean Trende)

Oct 11 2024 45 mins  
As Election Day draws closer, I'm joined by my AEI colleague Sean Trende to break down all things 2024. We discuss swing state polling before moving into who we think might be favored to win the White House. Did Democrats make the wrong VP pick? What's behind Harris's stubborn leads in the Midwestern battlegrounds? Why are some pollsters suddenly weighting on recalled vote? Who's f

TLP Podcast (w/ guest Musa al-Gharbi)

Sep 27 2024 63 mins  
On this week’s podcast, Musa al-Gharbi and I start with a laugh about his journey from a ruby-red county in Arizona to Columbia University before diving into his new book: We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite. How is social justice discourse used to justify and maintain inequality? Why are these problems often most acute in blue cities? In what ways