Conference on Liberalism in 21st Century, Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism hosts (The UnPopulist #LibCon2025) – LIVE at 4pm ET on C-SPAN c-span.org/event/public-a…

#LibCon2025 is officially underway! Follow along here for highlights and updates.

"Authoritarian consolidation is Trump's real Project Warp Speed". We’re at The UnPopulist’s Liberalism in the 21st Century conference hearing from shikha sood dalmia about the need to defend liberal democracy.

"In the last six months, we've seen... ferocious and sustained attacks on habeas corpus, the universities, journalists, immigrants, everything that has made America great." - Suketu Mehta at#LibCon2025

We're at #LibCon2025! Come meet up with us if you're here.

Our #LibCon2025 conference kicks off with an absolutely 🔥🔥 opening address by shikha sood dalmia. Read this 👇 theunpopulist.net/p/liberals-nee…

Suketu Mehta "A tyrant, a bully can only enjoy power if people obey. Power rests with the subordinate." - Suketu Mehta

"So I actually like the deep state. I think that any functioning political system has to have a civil service that meets these basic Weberian requirements of being non-partisan, expert, professional, and the like." Francis Fukuyama at #LibCon2025

"it's just a meme, bro" -every MAGA

I'm at this conference and it's great 👍

Francis Fukuyama Jack Goldsmith Ruth Marcus "Instead of [The Justice Department] seeming to resist Trump's admonitions and exhortations to go after his political enemies, we're seeing at least the incipient stages of launching investigations and convening grand juries." - Ruth Marcus

Libs for the deep state. 😈

Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza (Vladimir Kara-Murza) speaks at Conference on Liberalism in 21st Century, Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism hosts (The UnPopulist #LibCon2025) – LIVE at 8:30pm ET on C-SPAN c-span.org/event/public-a…

Dinner Keynote at #LibCon2025 by Vladimir Kara-Murza

With Vladimir Kara-Murza and shikha sood dalmia at #LibCon2025

Honored to have taken part in this discussion, moderated by the great Yascha Mounk , on lessons that the 🇺🇸 can learn from the challenges liberalism is facing abroad. The UnPopulist

LibCon2025 is almost at an end. Here is shikha sood dalmia about to introduce our incredible final keynote conversation between Derek Thompson and Steven Pinker

🔥🔥🔥 Steven Pinker at ISMA’s LibCon2025 keynote conversation

A very insightful #LibCon2025 panel—featuring Francis Fukuyama, Ruth Marcus, and Jack Goldsmith—on the state of our democracy. Here's the whole thing—video + transcript—in The UnPopulist theunpopulist.net/p/why-courts-c…

I attended #LibCon2025 for the first time this year; the quality of panels was uncommonly high, and this was one of the best of them.