Episodes

  • Matthew McManus on Liberal Socialism

    Matthew McManus on Liberal Socialism
    Sep 22 2025
    Today my guest is Matthew McManus. Matt McManus is an incoming assistant professor of political theory at Spellman College. He is the author of The Political Right and Equality as well as The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism, which we are discussing today. McManus sees himself as engaging in a project of retrieval of a forgotten tradition of thought within the liberal tradition which advocates for socialist ends. This is a project with which I have some affinity as a liberal anarchist, but I have some big disagreements with how he sees the difference between liberal socialists and other more pro-market liberals as well as the institutional form he thinks liberal socialism should take: a form of statist social democracy. You will see us get into those disagreements at the end of the discussion. Show Notes Matthew McMannus, The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism Jason Lee Byas, Radical Liberalism: The Soul of Libertarianism Judith Shklar, The Liberalism of Fear Charles Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries David Dyzenhaus, Hobbes and the Law Thomas Paine, Rights of Man Thomas Paine, Agrarian Justice Isaac Kramnick, The Rage of Edmund Burke Edmund Burke, A Vindication of Natural Society Helen McCabe, John Stuart Mill, Socialist Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Hayek, Marx, and Utopia Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program David Prychitko, Marxism and Workers' Self-Management: The Essential Tension Karl Marx, The Civil War in France Gary Chartier, Radicalizing Rawls Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right FA Hayek, Individualism True and False Gus Dizerga, Outgrowing Methodological Individualism Tony Smith, Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism Kevin Carson, Studies in Mutualist Political Economy David Beito, From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State Fabio Perocco, Racism In and For the Welfare State Quinn Slobodian, Hayek's Bastards Kjell Östberg, The Rise and Fall of Swedish Social Democracy Pelle Dragsted, Nordic Socialism John Rawls, Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy Karl Marx, Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy Wendy Brown, Walled States: Waning Sovereignty
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    2 hrs and 18 mins
  • MER Roundtable: Immigration Under Fascism

    MER Roundtable: Immigration Under Fascism
    Apr 15 2025
    Zachary Woodman, Alex McHugh, and Nathan Goodman join Cory Massimino for a panel on Trump's authoritarian actions on immigration, the history of immigration control and regulation, and what you can do to resist the administration's authoritarian xenophobia. Show notes and Sources: Zachary Woodman's Segment on the Trump Administration's Actions on Immigration So Far Trump's Executive Order on the Alien Enemies ActVenezuelan Couple in Virginia Case Thrown out of Civil Court ICE disappears 48 Undocumented Migrants DC Circuit Court Judge: Nazis got more Due Process under Alien Enemies Act Legal History of Migrant's Constitutional Rights Migrants Deported for Non-Gang-Related Tattoos 90% of Migrants Deported to El Salvador Have No Criminal Record Trump's Appeal up to the Supreme Court, Supreme Court's Rulings on the matter So Far Trump Defying Court Orders Mike Johnson Floats Dissolving District Courts that Rule Against Trump on Administration House passes bill restricting district court judges from issuing nationwide injunctions MAGA Supporters Send Death Threats to Judges Trump Administration's Letter Intimidating Northwestern Law Clinic The Trump Administration's Populist Arguments in CourtsThom Homan: "What was Laken Riley's Due Process?" Trump Admin Executive Order Revoking Citizenship for Thousands of Migrants Trump Administration Pausing Green Card Applications Filipino Woman from Washington Disappeared by Border Patrol Canadian Woman Held in Custody by CBP Canada, Germany, UK Issuing Travel Warnings against United States Legal Migrant from Tampa Being Extradited to El Salvador Columbia Student Hunted by ICE for Her Palestinian Disagreement Tufts Student Abducted by Unmarked Immigration Officials Trump Admin Revokes Legal Status for Hundreds of Student Visa Holders Three Deaths in ICE Custody at Krome Detention Center in Miami Texas Migrants Being Deported to Guantanamo Bay Luis Alberto Castillo Rivera's Legal Deposition Kristi Noem's Propaganda Video in El Salvador, which Violates National Law Opening of Migrant Detention Center in MichiganCBP's 100-Mile Border Zone ICE Targeting US CitizensMahmoud Khalil's Public Statement of His Detention Louisiana Judge Rules Against Mouhamad Khalil, Citing Foreign Policy Authority Trump's Birthright Citizenship Executive Order and Why it's Unconstitutional Nathan's Segment on the History of US Border Policy: Coyne and Hall: Tyranny Comes HomeBorder Militarization and Domestic Institutions Federal Officers Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab People In Portland, DHS Confirms Drones on the Border: Efficacy and Privacy Implications Reece Jones, Nobody is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United StatesUS Citizens Deported on Accident Pre-Trump Kenyon Zimmer: Faces of the First Red Scare: Documenting Red Scare Deportees Alex McHugh's Segment on Resisting ICE: Tool to Find ICE Contractors Meet the ICE ContractorsWe Have Rights: Document and Witness ICE/CBP Abuse of PowerBorderlands Relief CollectiveBorder KindnessAl Otro LadoWoomera Quaker Meeting Raided in UKNathan Goodman, et al: Collective Action in the Sanctuary Movement: Polycentric Protection of Central American Asylum Seekers Immigrant Legal Justice Center-Know Your RightsNational Immigrant Justice Center-Know Your RightsACLU-Know Your Rights, Immigrant Rights
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    59 mins
  • Mutual Exchange Radio: Christopher Coyne and Abigail Hall on 'How to Run Wars'

    Mutual Exchange Radio: Christopher Coyne and Abigail Hall on 'How to Run Wars'
    Jun 24 2024

    This episode is hosted by C4SS's Elinor Ostrom Chair in the Study of Self Governance, Nathan Goodman. Nathan is joined by Christopher Coyne and Abigail Hall for a deep dive into the authors' new book, How to Run Wars, A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite, available from June 18th on Amazon, or through the Independent Institute. E-book versions are available for Kindle, Apple iBooks, and Barnes and Noble Nook and links are available in the show notes below.

    • Buy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1598133926/theindepeende-20
    • Apple iBooks: https://books.apple.com/us/book/how-to-run-wars/id6502372918
    • Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-run-wars-christopher-j-coyne/1145071631?ean=9781598133943

    Christopher Coyne is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University, the Associate Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center, and the Director of the Initiative for the Study of a Stable Peace (ISSP) through the Hayek Program. He is the Co-Editor of The Review of Austrian Economics and of The Independent Review.

    Abigail R. Hall is an Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida. She is an affiliated scholar with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and a Senior Fellow with the Independent Institute in Oakland, California. She is a Non-Resident Fellow with Defense Priorities and a Public Choice and Public Policy Fellow with the American Institute for Economic Research. She earned her PhD in Economics from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
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    1 hr and 47 mins
  • John Cavanaugh on Data Privacy & The Digital Divide

    John Cavanaugh on Data Privacy & The Digital Divide
    May 30 2024

    This episode of MER features Alex McHugh interviewing John Cavanaugh of the digital-privacy organization, The Plunk Foundation.

    The Plunk Foundation promotes digital data privacy through education, advocacy, and policy recommendations, and by developing privacy tools and tech. Our conversation ranges from the deeper discussion on consent and privacy as related to self-ownership, to the more practical question of how to ethically navigate today's digital landscape and the potential for privacy-focused tech.

    John Cavanaugh on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/privacy-evangelist/

    Email: john@plunkfoundation.org

    Support C4SS podcasts on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c4ssdotorg
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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Mikayla Novak & Akiva Malamet on Gender as a Discovery Process

    Mikayla Novak & Akiva Malamet on Gender as a Discovery Process
    Mar 15 2024

    This episode brings Austrian economics into the gender identity discussion. We get into a lot of messy and fascinating questions about gender, identity, and social structures.

    Read the paper here: https://cosmosandtaxis.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/malamet_novak_ct_vol11_iss11_12_epub.pdf

    Mikayla Novak is senior fellow with the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. She is the author of Inequality: An Entangled Political Economy Perspective (2018) and Freedom in Contention: Social Movements and Liberal Political Economy (2021). Her research work has been published in a range of academic journals, including Research Policy, Constitutional Political Economy, Review of Austrian Economics, Journal of Institutional Economics, and Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice. Mikayla's research interests include Austrian and evolutionary economics, public choice, entangled political economy, economic sociology, public finance, and regulatory economics.

    And listeners will recognize Akiva Malamet, a returning guest to the show. Akiva previously appeared on our June 2020 episode of Mutual Exchange Radio to discuss his work on Nationalism and Identity Formation. He is a contributing editor at Unpopulist and an MA candidate at Queens University, and a long-time friend of C4SS.

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    1 hr and 50 mins
  • Jason Lee Byas about Public Choice Theory, Reparations (for slavery and other injustices), and War

    Jason Lee Byas about Public Choice Theory, Reparations (for slavery and other injustices), and War
    Dec 4 2023

    Cory Massimino chats with Jason Lee Byas about public choice theory, reparations (for slavery and other injustices), and war.

    Jason Lee Byas is a fellow at the Center for a Stateless Society and a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Michigan. His academic work focuses on punishment (and its alternatives), rights theory, and justice beyond the state.
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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • Dennis Danvers on Writing, Sci-Fi, and the Weirdness of Time

    Dennis Danvers on Writing, Sci-Fi, and the Weirdness of Time
    Jul 29 2023

    Alex McHugh interviews sci-fi author Dennis Danvers on anarchist ideas in fiction, his books The Watch and Leaving the Dead, and the life of a writer.

    http://dennisdanvers.com/

    Mr. Danvers has written a variety of well-received sci-fi novels, including Circuit of Heaven, Time and Time Again, and End of Days, as well as the Locus and Bram Stoker nominee Wilderness. His short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Space and Time, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, F & SF, Realms of Fantasy, Electric Velocipede, Lightspeed, Tor.com, See the Elephant, Apex Magazine; and in anthologies Tails of Wonder, Richmond Noir, The Best of Electric Velocipede, Remapping Richmond's Hallowed Ground, and Nightmare Carnival. He taught fiction writing and science fiction and fantasy literature at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia for over thirty years.
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • scott crow on Music, Media, and Community Defense

    scott crow on Music, Media, and Community Defense
    May 4 2023

    A wide-ranging interview with acclaimed anarchist activist and musician, scott crow (https://www.scottcrow.org/). Alex McHugh hosts, with the first half focusing on scott's music and media project, eMERGENCY heARTS, and the latter on his previous work on theories of liberatory community armed self-defense.

    * Content note: scott and I talk about the murder of Garrett Foster in the second half of this episode. It comes up in a discussion about the strategic value (or lack thereof) of open carry at protests.

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    1 hr and 17 mins