In this episode we talk about with Rowan Fitton, the co-editor of the official magazine of LYMEC, the youth organisation of the ALDE Party and the Renew Europe parliamentary group, Libertas, the co-international officer for the Young Liberals UK. We go into the very good results for the Lib-Dems in the last Parlamentaly election, and the future of the UK with the EU, but also relating to Scotland and Norhern Ireland.

This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with Movimento Liberal Social and Fundacja Liberté!, with the financial support of the European Parliament. Neither the European Parliament nor the European Liberal Forum are responsible for the content or for any use that be made of.

Electoral success in the UK, with Rowan Fitton

Can liberalism be the basis of a meaningful and fun way of life? Philosopher Alexandre Lefebvre delves into this idea with Mark Scott, Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sydney and host of The Solutionists podcast.

This event was held on Thursday 19 September 2024 at the University of Sydney. For more links and resources, including the transcript, visit Sydney Ideas website: bit.ly/47FhY2e

Alexandre Lefebvre: Liberalism may be the source of your soul

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 101

DARVO is an acronym that refers to a particular abusive behavior that applies when the abuser is caught or called out. It stands for Deny, Attack, and Reverse the roles of Victim and Offender: DARVO. DARVO takes many forms, but in wedge operations it very frequently takes the form of being divisive and then accusing the people who call it out of being divisive. It fits the mold: Deny: "I'm not divisive!" Attack: "You're divisive!" in such a way that it Reverses the roles of Victim and Offender. In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay explains this simple, common, Machiavellian trick used to steal power by divisive elements.

New book! The Queering of the American Child: https://queeringbook.com/

Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support

Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe

Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames

© 2024 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #DARVO

The DARVO Of "You're Divisive!"

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) and Leszek Jażdżewski (Fundacja Liberté!) come together to talk about this year’s edition of the (amazing) Freedom Games, with the title ‘City:Europe:Future’. They also talk about the age divide on the perception of liberalism, and how that creates the need to make 'liberalism sexy again'.

This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with Movimento Liberal Social and Fundacja Liberté!, with the financial support of the European Parliament. Neither the European Parliament nor the European Liberal Forum are responsible for the content or for any use that be made of.

Freedom Games 2024 Episode with Ricardo Silvestre and Leszek Jażdżewski

The upcoming elections in Georgia are going to be crucial for the country’s future: the results could either solidify the recent political shift towards Russia or bring a change in leadership that restores Georgia's pro-Western trajectory.

In the latest episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social), talks with Ambassador Gigi Gigiadze, Senior Fellow at the Economic Policy Research Center in Tbilisi, and former Deputy Foreign Minister of Georgia about recent political trends and the importance of the election.


This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with Movimento Liberal Social and Fundacja Liberté!, with the financial support of the European Parliament. Neither the European Parliament nor the European Liberal Forum are responsible for the content or for any use that be made of.

Georgian Elections: What is at stake? - Interview with Ambassador Gigi Gigiadze

One way to think about Republican Nelson Rockefeller’s politics is that he was moderate: a conservative, but one who was open to policies that worked, liberal policies that, after 1980, were systematically stamped out in the GOP. And Rockefeller is hard to classify today, as historian Marsha Barrett points out in Nelson Rockefeller’s Dilemma:The Fight to Save Moderate Republicanism (Cornell University Press, 2024). For example, his draconian anti-drug policies in New York State became a template for similarly harsh laws around the country. These so-called “Rockefeller laws” devastated Black communities through incarceration and brutal policing, even as the international drug trade boomed.

At the same time, as Governor of New York, Rockefeller promoted the public good, pumping money into public higher education, medical care, and the arts. And significantly, as the Republican Party spun ever rightward after 1964, Rockefeller learned that the office he craved, President of the United States, would forever be out of reach.

"Why Now?" Episode 61: How the GOP Killed Dissent

From top to bottom, Americans can virtue-signal like nobody's business.  But material conditions of most of society in the US indicate a total failure of governance.

How Liberalism and Fascism Are Flip Sides of the Same Coin

A critical response to a recent editorial in Village magazine titled "Nationalism, a scourge", in which the editor puts forward an argument against nationalism, based on a faulty definition of what nationalism is.

DDR E.013 Liberalism: A Scourge

What makes an ideology sexy? What does the liberal utopia look like? What does it mean to be a 'good liberal' politician, bureaucrat, or a think tank? And how to make liberalism sexy (again)?

Leszek Jazdzewski (Fundacja Liberte!) talks with Sven Gerst, a philosopher with an interdisciplinary background in philosophy, politics, and economics. He holds advanced degrees from King’s College London, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and the University of Mannheim and has previously studied and worked at Harvard University, Duke University, St. Petersburg State University, and National Taiwan University.

Sven Gerst was a guest of the last edition of Freedom Games, a festival of ideas held annually in Łódź, Poland, held on October 18-20 in EC1 Łódź. The European Liberal Forum was the Co-Organizer of the festival.

This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with Movimento Liberal Social and Fundacja Liberté!, with the financial support of the European Parliament. Neither the European Parliament nor the European Liberal Forum are responsible for the content or for any use that be made of.

Making Liberalism Sexy (Again) with Sven Gerst

There’s a shift in paradigm about what a politician should look like, how they should talk, and what works with the electorate. But post-truth and post-shame politics is not a new phenomenon but one for decades in the making. 

Daniela Melo, lecturer of social sciences at Boston University and Ricardo Silvestre discussed some of the factors that can decide the US election of the 5th of November, and went into what can be described as a "post-trust, post-shame" politics.

This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with Movimento Liberal Social and Fundacja Liberté!, with the financial support of the European Parliament. Neither the European Parliament nor the European Liberal Forum are responsible for the content or for any use that be made of.

Post-shame politics and the 2024 US Elections - with Daniela Melo (Part1)

Why would Latinos vote for Trump in the US? Why do some Muslims support Le Pen in France? What role does identity play when it comes to backing populist forces? We continue the conversation with Daniela Melo, lecturer of social sciences at Boston University. This time we focus on how certain minorities vote, accounting, or against their own interests (and how we see that in Europe also).

This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with Movimento Liberal Social and Fundacja Liberté!, with the financial support of the European Parliament. Neither the European Parliament nor the European Liberal Forum are responsible for the content or for any use that be made of.

Post-shame politics and the 2024 US Elections - with Daniela Melo (Part2)

New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 102

Something is rotten in the state of the conservative movement. Namely, a broad and diffuse coalition of radical Right-wing elements has arisen and begun to mature bearing unmistakable hallmarks of Woke behavior while claiming Right-wing status and conservative values. Some have called it the "Woke Right," which in certain ways is a very good name for it, although "Right Hand of the Left" is also good. In this first introductory episode on the topic, host James Lindsay gives a (somewhat long) New Discourses Bullets treatment of the phenomenon, with more sure to come. Join him to understand how we are undeniably entering into a two-front war against the Woke.

New book! The Queering of the American Child: https://queeringbook.com/

Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support

Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe

Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames

© 2024 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #Woke

What is the Woke Right?

A Sneaky Link gem from the vaults. Mixed horribly and brickwalled to oblivion.

2022

SNEAKY LINKS- Chinese Rocks

What is the role of civil society training and engagement in a country where institutions are captured by anti-democratic and anti-liberal governments? In the latest episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social) talks with Amb. Nino Kalandadze, founder and executive director of the Chavchavadze Center, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia who led the EU-Georgia Talks in 2008. 

This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with Movimento Liberal Social and Fundacja Liberté!, with the financial support of the European Parliament. Neither the European Parliament nor the European Liberal Forum is responsible for the content or for any use that is made of.

Show notes

This podcast, as well as previous episodes, is available on SoundCloud, Apple Podcast, Stitcher and Spotify.
You can learn more about Nino here and follow her on LinkedIn.
Get to know the work done by the Chavchavadze Center, the first civil society organisation in Georgia modelled after European political foundations, here. You can also follow them on X/Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

--
You can learn more about the Black Sea Security Conference here and here.
You can follow the work done by our colleagues at The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, South Caucasus, here, the Europe-Georgia Institute here, and The Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Regional Programme Political Dialogue South Caucasus, here.
 
Also, a big thank you to our friends at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty which provides uncensored, trusted news to audiences in 23 countries where a free press is under threat, and with a number of award-winning journalists in its team, the Georgian service of RFE/RL, Tavisupleba [meanin "Freedom" in Georgian], provides politically and financially independent journalism.

The role of civil society in Georgia - with Nino Kalandadze

With Europe moving toward conflict in 1938, a number of economists and other intellectuals met in Paris to try to revitalize liberalism. Ludwig von Mises also was there as a lonely voice defending laissez-faire and the free market economy.

Narrated by Millian Quinteros.

Audio Mises Wire

Who Killed Liberalism? Remembering the Walter Lippmann-Mises Colloquium

In the latest episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social), talks to the MEP Lucia Yar, Vice President of the European Liberal Forum, about her journey from journalism to politics, Progressive Slovakia’s mission, and the importance of gender equality in EU policy.

This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with Movimento Liberal Social and Fundacja Liberté!, with the financial support of the European Parliament. Neither the European Parliament nor the European Liberal Forum are responsible for the content or for any use that be made of.

Gender Equality, Security, and European Unity - a Conversation with MEP Lucia Yar

In this episode of Open College, Stephen Hicks explores the philosophical underpinnings of education by contrasting pre-modern authoritarianism, modern liberalism, and postmodern critiques. Hicks examines how educational philosophies reflect deeper questions about knowledge, values, and human nature, highlighting the authoritarian tendencies of pre-modern and postmodern approaches. He advocates for modern liberal education, which emphasizes intellectual freedom, critical thinking, and informed judgment, arguing that education should prepare individuals to exercise self-responsible action while respecting diverse viewpoints. Through historical and contemporary examples, Hicks underscores the importance of maintaining intellectual diversity and liberty in educational institutions.

Follow Open College on Substack.  OpenCollege.Substack.coms

EP59 | Liberal Education’s Postmodern Critics

While sovereignty and sustainability are vital, competitiveness is essential to achieving both. Without competitiveness, taxpayer money could be wasted on lofty goals that fail to deliver results. In the new episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social), talks to Professor Gerard Pogorel, Senior Fellow at ELF, about the Draghi Report, and about how the EU is facing an industrial autonomy trilemma. 

This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with Movimento Liberal Social and Fundacja Liberté!, with the financial support of the European Parliament. Neither the European Parliament nor the European Liberal Forum are responsible for the content or for any use that be made of.

The Draghi Report and the EU's industrial autonomy trilemma - with Gerard Pogorel

In this episode of the Liberal Europe Podcast, Ricardo Silvestre (Movimento Liberal Social), talks to MEP and ELF Board Member, Jeannette Baljeu. They talk about the document "The future of European competitiveness – A competitiveness strategy for Europe", also known as Draghi Report, from a political perspective.

This podcast is produced by the European Liberal Forum in collaboration with Movimento Liberal Social and Fundacja Liberté!, with the financial support of the European Parliament. Neither the European Parliament nor the European Liberal Forum are responsible for the content or for any use that be made of.

What's behind the Draghi Report with MEP Jeannette Baljeu

Singer/songwriter, writer, podcaster (on Spotify, Substack & Patreon), libertarian socialist, dad, lover of life.

Sydney Ideas is the University of Sydney's premier public lecture series program, bringing the world's leading thinkers and the latest research to the wider Sydney community.

Dublin-based podcast documenting grassroots activism in Ireland

The Mises Institute, founded in 1982, is an educational institution devoted to advancing Austrian economics, freedom, and peace in the classical-liberal tradition. Our website offers many thousands of free books and thousands of hours of audio and video, along with the full run of rare journals, biographies, and bibliographies of great economists.

Dr. Stephen R.C. Hicks is a Canadian-American philosopher who teaches at Rockford University, Illinois. He has had visiting positions at Oxford University (England), Kasimir the Great University (Poland), and has lectured at universities across North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He specializes in modern European philosophy and politics, and has written extensively on Kant, Marx, including his two books, Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault and Nietzsche and the Nazis.

The European Liberal Forum (ELF) is the official think tank and political foundation of the European Liberal Party, the ALDE Party.
Together with 56 member organisations we work all over Europe to bring new ideas into the political debate, to provide a platform for discussion and to enable citizens to make their voices heard.

Pursuing the light of objective truth in subjective darkness.

Professor of History emeritus at The New School for Social Research and contributing editor at Public Seminar. Find me on my Substack at https://clairepotter.substack.com

New tracks tagged #liberalism