The Curious Task

Andrew Sabl — What Is Realist Liberalism?

Alex Aragona speaks with Andrew Sabl as he explores what he means by "realist liberalism" and how it works to curb some of the misguided tendencies of other liberalisms.

References

1. Liberalism Beyond Markets by Andrew Stabl

Link: https://www.niskanencenter.org/liberalism-beyond-markets/ 

2. Realist liberalism: an agenda by Andrew Stabl

Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13698230.2017.1293916 

3. A Look Back: Sedition, Free Speech and the President by Scott Bomboy

Link: https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/a-look-back-sedition-free-speech-and-the-president 

4. Presidential Power and Modern Presidents by Richard E. Neustadt

Link: http://ereserve.library.utah.edu/Annual/POLS/3150/Curry/neustadt.pdf  

5. “The Meaning of the Welfare State” by F.A. Hayek

Link: http://bev.berkeley.edu/ipe/Hayek%20The%20Meaning%20of%20the%20Welfare%20State.pdf

Michelle Schwarze — Should We Sympathize With Resentment?

Alex Aragona speaks with Michelle Schwarze as she presents what she means by resentment, and whether there is a place for it in politics.

References

1. "Recognizing Resentment: Sympathy, Injustice and Liberal Political Thought" by Michelle Schwarze

Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Recognizing-Resentment-Michelle-Schwarze/dp/1108478662 

2. Second Emancipation Proclamation letter from Martin Luther King to President Kennedy 

Link: https://www.crmvet.org/info/emancip2.pdf

Stefan Kolev — What Is Ordoliberalism?

Alex Aragona speaks with Stefan Kolev as he tours through the origins of Ordoliberalism and some of its fundamental principles.

References

1. When Liberty Presupposes Order: F. A. Hayek’s Contextual Ordoliberalism by Steven Kolev

Link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-history-of-economic-thought/article/when-liberty-presupposes-order-f-a-hayeks-contextual-ordoliberalism/E3B96673B94952167704B24FC3A91857 

2. “Old Chicago” and Freiburg: Why Ordoliberalism Was No “German Oddity” by Steven Kolev

Link: https://www.promarket.org/2021/07/25/chicago-freiburg-ordoliberalism-neoliberalism-germany/ 

3. The quote is from “Power Is Evil in Itself”: The Ordoliberal Quest for a Privilege-Free Order by Steven Kolev

Link: https://www.promarket.org/2021/03/28/ordoliberal-privilege-free-order-walter-eucken-franz-bohm-germany/

Travis Smith — The Tyranny of Which Majority?

Alex Aragona speaks with Travis Smith as he explores some key insights from Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America.

References

1. “Superhero Ethics” by Travis Smith 

Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Superhero-Ethics-Comic-Heroes-World/dp/1599474549 

2. “Democracy in America” by Alexis de Tocqueville

Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Democracy-America-Tocqueville-Mansfield-Winthrop/dp/0226805360 

3. “Democracy in America, Volume 2” by Alexis de Tocqueville

Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Democracy-America-Vol-Alexis-Tocqueville/dp/0679728260

Caroline Breashears — What Does Adam Smith Have To Do With Literature?

Alex Aragona speaks with Caroline Breashears as she explores concepts from Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, and connects them to various characters and stories in English literature. 

References

1. “Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the 'Scandalous Memoir’” by Caroline Breashears

Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Eighteenth-Century-Womens-Writing-Scandalous-Memoir/dp/3319486543 

2. “The Practical Morality of Life: Adam Smith, George Anne Bellamy, and the Theatre”

Link: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-practical-morality-of-life.html 

3. “The Theory of Moral Sentiments and on the Origins of Language” by Adam Smith

Link: https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/smith-the-theory-of-moral-sentiments-and-on-the-origins-of-languages-stewart-ed 

4. “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination” by J.K. Rowling

Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Very-Good-Lives-Importance-Imagination/dp/0316369152 

5. “1984” by George Orwell

Link: https://www.amazon.ca/1984-George-Orwell/dp/0451524934 

6. “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley

Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Frankenstein-Mary-Shelley/dp/1512308056