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The Disarray of Protestant Churches Is Bad News for American Liberal Democracy: A Conversation with Raymond R. Roberts

May 31, 2026 49m

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…

Mamdani's 100-Plus Days: Abundance Liberal or Democratic Socialist? A Discussion

May 04, 2026 1h 4m

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…

Where Will the GOP—and Where Should Democrats—Go After Trump: A Conversation with Jamelle Bouie

Apr 27, 2026 1h 2m

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…

Trump Proved to be Unimaginably Bad for the Free Market Cause: A Conversation with Veronique de Rugy

Apr 19, 2026 50m

Trump Proved to be Unimaginably Bad for the Free Market Cause: A Conversation with Veronique de RugyThanks for checking out The UnPopulist! Subscribe to support our project.© The UnPopulist,…

The Case for Impeaching Trump Even if He's Not Convicted: A Conversation with Bill Kristol

Apr 12, 2026 47m

Listen to Zooming In at The UnPopulist in your favorite podcast app: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | RSS | YouTubeWith the Iran war expanding and President Donald Trump’s public behavior…

Not All Trump Voters Love Him but They Regard the Other Side as Out of Touch with Them: A Conversation with Jason Mangone

Mar 29, 2026 1h 8m

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…

Manosphere Men Want a Society That Loves Them For Their Vices: A Conversation With Toby Buckle

Mar 15, 2026 55m

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…

How the Right and the Left Converged Against Capitalism: A Conversation With John Cassidy

Feb 17, 2026 54m

Listen to Zooming In at The UnPopulist in your favorite podcast app: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | RSS | YouTubeNew Yorker staff writer and economist John Cassidy joins The…

Will the Trump Administration's MAGA-Driven Foreign Policy Be America's Downfall? A Conversation with Anne Applebaum

Feb 05, 2026 44m

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…

Does America Need a Deeper State to Save It? A Conversation with Tyler Cowen and Francis Fukuyama

Jan 26, 2026 1h

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…

ICE Is Only Getting Started, the Worst Is Yet to Come: A Conversation with David J. Bier

Jan 09, 2026 59m

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…

A Persecution Complex Links the Pilgrims and Christian Nationalism: A Conversation With Tyler Huckabee

Nov 28, 2025 46m

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…

America Will Need a Reconstruction Project After Trump: A Conversation with Shikha Dalmia and Andy Craig

Nov 21, 2025 56m

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,…

China's Authoritarian Regime Is Censoring American Universities: A Conversation with Sarah McLaughlin

Oct 05, 2025 34m

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…

From Conservative Civic Nationalism to MAGA White Nationalism: A Conversation with Jason Wilson

Sep 28, 2025 44m

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…

How Should We Respond to the MAGA Right's Embrace of the Cult of Cruelty? A Conversation With Radley Balko and Charlie Sykes

Aug 31, 2025 49m

Listen to Zooming In at The UnPopulist in your favorite podcast app: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | RSS | YouTubeLandry Ayres: Welcome back to Zooming In at The UnPopulist. I’m Landry…

Trump Is Extorting Universities in the Name of Intellectual Diversity: A Conversation with Michael S. Roth

Jul 31, 2025 40m

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…

Are Advanced Capitalist Liberal Democracies Victims of Their Own Success? A Conversation with Brink Lindsey

Jul 27, 2025 45m

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…

Should the Heterodox Academy Prioritize Fighting Trump's Authoritarian Assaults Over Wokeness on Campuses? A Conversation with Cathy Young

Jul 20, 2025 46m

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…

How America Created an Enormous and Abusive Surveillance State: A Conversation with Patrick Eddington

Jun 12, 2025 30m

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,…

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