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In today's episode of the Telos Press Podcast, David Pan talks with Alvise Capria about his article "Sous l'œil des Chinois: The Reception of Carl Schmitt in Contemporary Chinese Political Thought," from Telos 215 (Summer 2026): China and Sovereignty.

In today's episode of the Telos Press Podcast, Adrian Pabst talks with Michael Lind and John Milbank about postliberalism, the topic of the current issue of Telos, "Debating Postliberalism." Adrian Pabst's "The New Era: What Comes After the Self-Erosion of Liberalism," Michael Lind's "After Liberalism," and John Milbank's "The Politics of Virtue" all appear in the issue. We have made the articles by Pabst and Lind available as open access publications, and they can be read for free at our website. To purchase a copy of the issue or to subscribe to Telos, visit our online store.

In this episode of the TPPI Podcast, we present plenary session 3, entitled "Economic Democracy and Political Participation," from day 1 of Political Economy and the Good Life: The 2024 Postliberalism Conference. This session was moderated by Imogen Sinclair, Director of the New Social Covenant Unit. The panel featured presentations from the following four speakers:

• Dan Carden MP, Labour Member of Parliament for Liverpool, Walton since 2017;

• Jonathan C.D. Clark, British historian; Joyce C. and Elizabeth Ann Hall Distinguished Professor Emeritus of British History, University of Kansas;

• Will Hutton, President, Academy of Social Sciences; columnist, The Observer; author of This Time No Mistakes (2024); and

• Munira Mirza, Director, Civic Future; Head of the No. 10 Policy Unit (2019–2022).

The 2024 Postliberalism Conference took place on December 13–14, 2024, in the McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, UK. Co-sponsored by the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute, the Centre for Social Renewal, Energeia, and Plough, the conference brought together leading academics, politicians, policymakers, and journalists to explore the errors and excesses of liberalism and to conceptualize constructive alternatives to its worldview and to the dominant theoretical models that underpin it.

In this episode of the TPPI Podcast, we present plenary session 2, entitled "Beyond Global Capitalism and the Ecological Crisis: Rebuilding National Economies and Societies," from day 1 of Political Economy and the Good Life: The 2024 Postliberalism Conference. This session was moderated by David Pan, Editor of Telos and Professor of German at the University of California, Irvine. The panel featured presentations from the following four speakers:

• Sohrab Ahmari, Co-Founder and Co-Editor, Compact Magazine; U.S. Editor of UnHerd; author of Tyranny, Inc. How Private Power Crushed American Liberty–And What To Do About It (2023);

• Juan Carlos Belausteguigoitia, Professor of Economics; Director of the Center of Energy and Natural Resources, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM);

• Mary Harrington, Contributing Editor, UnHerd and author of Feminism against Progress (2022); and

• Wolfgang Streeck, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany; author of Taking Back Control? States and State Systems After Globalism (2024).

The 2024 Postliberalism Conference took place on December 13–14, 2024, in the McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, UK. Co-sponsored by the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute, the Centre for Social Renewal, Energeia, and Plough, the conference brought together leading academics, politicians, policymakers, and journalists to explore the errors and excesses of liberalism and to conceptualize constructive alternatives to its worldview and to the dominant theoretical models that underpin it.

In this episode of the TPPI Podcast, we present plenary session 1, entitled "The Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism and Civil Society," from day 1 of Political Economy and the Good Life: The 2024 Postliberalism Conference. This session was moderated by Alison Milbank, Emeritus Professor of Theology and Literature, University of Nottingham, and author of God and the Gothic (2018) and For the Parish (2010, with Andrew Davison). The panel featured presentations from the following three speakers:

• Maurice (Lord) Glasman, Labour Life Peer, founder of Blue Labour and of the Common Good Foundation, and author of Blue Labour: The Politics of the Common Good (2022);

• Frances Foley, Deputy Director of the Compass think-tank; and

• Paul Tyson, Honorary Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland, Australia.

The 2024 Postliberalism Conference took place on December 13–14, 2024, in the McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, UK. Co-sponsored by the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute, the Centre for Social Renewal, Energeia, and Plough, the conference brought together leading academics, politicians, policymakers, and journalists to explore the errors and excesses of liberalism and to conceptualize constructive alternatives to its worldview and to the dominant theoretical models that underpin it.

In this episode of the TPPI Podcast, we present Michael Lind's keynote address "After Liberalism: Pluralism and the Social Constitution," from day 1 of Political Economy and the Good Life: The 2024 Postliberalism Conference. Lind is a leading academic, commentator, and bestselling author of The New Class War (2020). The panel discussion was moderated by Tom McTague, Political Editor of UnHerd, and it featured responses to Lind's lecture from the following three speakers:

• Claire Ainsley, Director of the Project on Center-Left Renewal, Progressive Policy Institute; Director of Policy, Labour Party (2020–22); author of The New Working Class;

• Jon Cruddas, former Labour MP for Dagenham and Rainham; author of The Dignity of Labour (2021), and A Century of Labour (2024); and

• Adrian Pabst, Professor of Politics, University of Kent, and author of The Politics of Virtue: Postliberalism and the Human Future (2016, with John Milbank) and Postliberal Politics (2021).

The 2024 Postliberalism Conference took place on December 13–14, 2024, in the McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, UK. Co-sponsored by the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute, the Centre for Social Renewal, Energeia, and Plough, the conference brought together leading academics, politicians, policymakers, and journalists to explore the errors and excesses of liberalism and to conceptualize constructive alternatives to its worldview and to the dominant theoretical models that underpin it.

In today's episode of the TPPI Podcast, Gabriel Noah Brahm speaks with New York City filmmaker Richard Ledes about his latest film, Ikonophile Z (2024). Ledes is the director of Adieu Lacan (2022), A Hole in One (2004), The Caller (2008), Foreclosure (2012), Fred Won't Move Out (2012), Golden Dawn, NYC (2014), The Dark Side (2014), No Human Is Illegal (2018), and the forthcoming V13 (2025).

Gabriel Noah Brahm talks with Orian Morris, a longtime close observer of Israeli politics and culture, a noted Israeli literary critic, a critically acclaimed novelist writing primarily in Hebrew, and a former IDF combat soldier. While serving as a paratrooper, he saw the death of his company commander in battle and participated in an ambush in which a number of Hezbollah terrorists were killed. He has authored numerous highly original and thought-provoking essays and stories for Haaretz, Makor Rishon, Tablet, and TelosScope. The release of his formally innovative 2016 book לרגל עבור מקום אחר (With My Little Eye) established him as the latest "enfant terrible of Hebrew literature."

Gabriel Noah Brahm talks with Paul Gross, a Senior Fellow at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem. Previously, Gross served as speechwriter for Israel's Ambassador to the UK. He holds an MA in Middle East Politics from the University of London, and lectures widely on Israeli history and politics. His numerous published research articles and op-eds have appeared in a variety of media outlets in Israel, the UK, the US and Canada, including The Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, Fathom, The American Interest , and Persuasion. He was an active participant in the protest movement against judicial reform in Israel from December 2022 to October 2023.

Gabriel Noah Brahm talks with Michael S. Kochin, Professor Extraordinarius in the School of Political Science, Government, and International Relations at Tel Aviv University. Kochin received his A.B. in mathematics at 19 from Harvard and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago. He has held visiting appointments at Yale, Princeton, Toronto, and Claremont McKenna College. Through September 2025 Kochin is Visiting Scholar at the Hillsdale College Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship and at the Catholic University of America. He has written widely on the comparative analysis of institutions, political thought, politics and literature, and political rhetoric. Kochin is the author of three books: Gender and Rhetoric in Plato's Political Thought (2002), Five Chapters on Rhetoric: Character, Action, Things, Nothing, and Art (2009) and (with the historian Michael Taylor) An Independent Empire: Diplomacy & War in the Making of the United States (2020). With Alberto Spektorowski he edited Michel Houellebecq, the Cassandra of Freedom: Submission and Decline (2021).

The TPPI Podcast, Episode 6: Israel's Year of Dangerous Living, Part 2: "From the Battlefield of Ideas to the Battlefield, and Back": A Podcast Conversation with Dr. Jonathan Spyer

Gabriel Noah Brahm, director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute's Israel Initiative, speaks with Jonathan Spyer, editor of the Middle East Quarterly, the Middle East Forum's flagship publication, and director of research at the Forum. A journalist, he reports for Janes Intelligence Review, writes a column for the Jerusalem Post, and is a contributor to the Wall Street Journal and The Australian. He frequently reports from Syria and Iraq. He has a B.A. from the London School of Economics, an M.A. from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. He is the author of two books: The Transforming Fire: The Rise of the Israel-Islamist Conflict (2010) and Days of the Fall: A Reporter's Journey in the Syria and Iraq Wars (2017).

Gabriel Noah Brahm, director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute's Israel Initiative, speaks with Gadi Taub, a Senior Lecturer at the Federmann School of Public Policy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Taub previously joined us for the TPPI webinar on "Our Troubled Institutions: The End(s) of Higher Education, Post-Journalism, and Antisemitism after October 7," which also featured Russell A. Berman and Paulina Neuding, and which is available here.

For more information about TPPI's Israel Initiative, visit our website.

The TPPI Podcast, Episode 4: The Nazi Roots of October 7: A Conversation with Matthias Küntzel and Gabriel Noah Brahm

Gabriel Noah Brahm, director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute's Israel Initiative, speaks with German political scientist Dr. Matthias Küntzel about the Nazi roots of the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023, and about the dangers posed today by Iran. This conversation follows TPPI's webinar of February 7, 2024, "Historians on Ideology and Politics in the 1948 War" with Küntzel, Jeffrey Herf, and Benny Morris, available here: https://youtu.be/2-xT2ePXjfU. The video version of this podcast is available here: https://youtu.be/gQezPnV0kvw 

For more information about TPPI's Israel Initiative, visit our website here: https://www.telosinstitute.net/israel-initiative/ 

In the latest podcast of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute, TPPI's Mark G. E. Kelly, organizer of the 2024 Telos conference on "Democracy Today?," speaks with Salvator Babones of the University of Sydney about democracy in India, asking him in particular about his sympathetic reading of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A video version of this interview is available here: https://youtu.be/epeq67sOccg

Gabriel Brahm, director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute's Israel initiative, talks with Abe Silberstein, a writer and critic based in New York, whose essays have appeared in the New York Times, Ha'aretz, The Forward, Times Literary Supplement (UK), and Dissent, among other publications. Their discussion focuses on Frantz Fanon and the events of October 7. This conversation follows TPPI's webinar on January 7 on the same subject with Silberstein, Cary Nelson, and Manuela Consonni, available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWNDnQtLvLQ

Gabriel Brahm, director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute's Israel initiative, speaks with Prof. Cary Nelson, former president of the American Association of University Professors, about the role of critical theory in the response within higher education to the Hamas atrocities of October 7. This conversation follows TPPI's webinar on January 7 on the same subject with Nelson, Abe Silberstein, and Manuela Consonni, available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWNDnQtLvLQ

Sherman A. Jackson discusses his article "Islam and the Promotion of Human Rights" from Telos 203 (Summer 2023).

Chih-yu Shih discusses his article "Loving Hong Kong: Unity and Solidarity in the Politics of Belonging" from Telos 202 (Spring 2023).

David Pan talks with Stephen Muecke about his article "Belonging in Aboriginal Australia: A Political 'Cosmography,'" from Telos 202 (Spring 2023).

David Pan talks with Matthew Dal Santo about his article "Russia, the Ukraine War, and the West's Empire of Secularization," from Telos 201 (Winter 2022).

John Milbank discusses his article "A Tale of Two Monsters and Four Elements: Variations of Carl Schmitt and the Current Global Crisis" from Telos 201 (Winter 2022).

Paul Grenier discusses his article "Konstantin Krylov's Ethical Theory and What It Reveals about the Propensity for Conflict between Russia and the West" from Telos 201 (Winter 2022).

Miles Yu discusses his article "Escape from Civilization's Predicaments" from Telos 201 (Winter 2022).

Eric Hendriks-Kim discusses his article "The Polemics of China's Counter Cosmopolitanism" from Telos 201 (Winter 2022).

David A. Westbrook discusses his article "From the Ivory Tower to the Football Stadium: A Rueful Response to Michael Hüther" from Telos 200 (Fall 2022).

Michael Hüther discusses his article "Tired of Science?! Notes on the Relationship between University and Society" from Telos 200 (Fall 2022).

Greg Melleuish and Susanna Rizzo discusses their article "Universities: Truth, Reason, or Emotion?" from Telos 200 (Fall 2022)

J. E. Elliott discusses his article "Brand English and Its Discontents: Situating Truth and Value in the University Today," from Telos 200 (Fall 2022)

Richard T. Marcy and Valerie J. D'Erman discuss their article "The Sensemaking and Construction of Political Narratives in Academic Settings," from Telos 200 (Fall 2022)

Xudong Zhang discusses his article "China and the West: Methodologies for Comparison," from Telos 199 (Summer 2022).

Sijia Yao discusses her article "Third Term Comparison," from Telos 199 (Summer 2022).

Brian Wolfel discusses his article "Thomas Carlyle's Conception of Transcendentalism in Sartor Resartus and Its Application to Theorizing Postliberalism," from Telos 199 (Summer 2022).

Karen Thornber discusses her article "Decentering the 'West' and 'China' in China-West Comparison," from Telos 199 (Summer 2022).

Ban Wang discusses his article "The Clash of Civilization and World Community: The West and China," from Telos 199 (Summer 2022).

Tomáš Sobek discusses his article "Tolerance as Suppressed Disapproval," from Telos 199 (Summer 2022).

Telos editors Tim Luke, Mark Kelly, and David Pan discuss their essays on Ukraine and world order from Telos 199 (Summer 2022).

Courtney Hodrick discusses her article "From Neoreaction to Alt-Right: A Schmittian Perspective," from Telos 198 (Spring 2022).

Georges Van Den Abbeele discusses his article "Can the Precariat Be Organized?: The Gig Economy, Worksite Dispersion, and the Challenge of Mutual Aid," from Telos 198 (Spring 2022).

Xuesong Shao discusses her article "Restoring and Reimagining Socialist-Built Cities: Wang Xiaoshuai's 'Third Front Trilogy,'" from Telos 197 (Winter 2021).

A panel discussion of Timothy W. Luke's new book, The Travails of Trumpification (Telos Press, 2021), with Timothy Luke, David Pan, Fred Siegel, and Mark S. Weiner.

Linus Recht discusses his article "After Desire: Foucault's Ethical Critique of Psychological Man and the Foucauldian Ethos of the Internet Age," from Telos 196 (Fall 2021).

Kyle Baasch discusses his article "Critical Theory in the Flesh: Adorno and Foucault in San Francisco," from Telos 196 (Fall 2021).

Nir Evron discusses his article "Hannah Arendt, Thinking, Metaphor," from Telos 196 (Fall 2021).

Matthew Sharpe discusses his article "Solitaire/Solidaire: Camus, Contemplation, and the Vita Mixta," from Telos 196 (Fall 2021).

Lillian Hingley discusses her article "The Feminine Character: The Allegory of Ibsen's Women in Adorno's Modernist Literary Theory," from Telos 196 (Fall 2021).

Telos editors Mark G. E. Kelly, Adrian Pabst, Marcia Pally, David Pan, and David A. Westbrook discuss the causes of the U.S. failure in Afghanistan and the long-term consequences.

Matthias Schwartz discusses his article "Servants of the People: Populism, Nationalism, State-Building, and Virtual Reality in Contemporary Ukraine," from Telos 195 (Summer 2021).

Telos Editor David Pan talks with Jay Gupta, Mark G.E. Kelly, and Timothy W. Luke about the changing character of the public sphere.