# visit wisdomofcrowds (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover visit wisdomofcrowds. Page: Feed: --- ## [Is the Left's Moment Really Real This Time?](https://wisdomofcrowds.live/p/is-the-lefts-moment-really-real-this) _2026-08-03 · Damir Marusic and Shadi Hamid · Wisdom of Crowds_ Shadi and Damir have been circling a question for weeks: is the American left’s moment real? To find out, they invited Sam Adler-Bell , co-host of Know Your Enemy and a socialist since it was, in his words, about as fashionable as collecting model trains. Radicalism keeps outperforming caution. Sam admits he used to advise against using the socialist label, against making Gaza a litmus test,… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209618731/5f1f5fd449c2ac748e4a827a6844e1d3.mp3) ## [Where's Your Red Line?](https://wisdomofcrowds.live/p/wheres-your-red-line) _2026-07-10 · Damir Marusic and Shadi Hamid · Wisdom of Crowds_ Damir is back from a sweltering Europe, where some commentators seemed to treat air conditioning as a moral failing. He opens the show with a provocation: the European aversion to AC isn’t about strained grids or shuttered nuclear plants — it’s secular theology, Christian guilt repurposed for Gaia. Shadi, on a mini-sabbatical in New York City (thermostat set well below Mamdani’s recommended 78),… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/206384396/10c355c6f56d63e0ba57e6fa28d690ca.mp3) ## [Anthropic's Jack Clark: AI or Democracy](https://wisdomofcrowds.live/p/anthropics-jack-clark-ai-or-democracy) _2026-06-22 · Samuel Kimbriel · Wisdom of Crowds_ This week, we are bringing you a conversation, recorded live at the Times Center in Manhattan last Thursday, between Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic, head of the Anthropic Institute and the man behind the Import AI newsletter, and our own Samuel Kimbriel. Clark opens with the uncomfortable premise: recursive self-improvement may arrive this decade — he’ll name 2028 if pressed — and with it a… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/203015100/884e9d4b15247733f2b371edfb70dbe7.mp3) ## [What If We Fired All the Politicians?](https://wisdomofcrowds.live/p/what-if-we-fired-all-the-politicians) _2026-05-11 · Samuel Kimbriel and Osita Nwanevu · Wisdom of Crowds_ In this live taping — a partnership between Wisdom of Crowds, Aspen Philosophy and Society, and Yale’s new Center for Civic Thought — Samuel Kimbriel sits down with political theorist Hélène Landemore and writer Osita Nwanevu to hash out a deceptively simple question: what is democracy actually for? Hélène, whose new book Politics Without Politicians: The Case for Citizen Rule makes the case for… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/197257137/959578d23128adbeedc24391383d19a8.mp3) ## [Church and Empire](https://wisdomofcrowds.live/p/church-and-empire) _2026-05-01 · Damir Marusic, Santiago Ramos, and Christine Emba · Wisdom of Crowds_ The Iran war has produced an unlikely main character: the Pope. This week, our dear friend and former colleague Santiago Ramos returns to the pod. He joins Christine and Damir to unpack the escalating clash between the Trump administration and the Catholic Church over the war, Trump’s various blasphemies, and JD Vance’s remarkable journey from Catholic conversion to, well, rediscovering… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/196065355/6b98fac84cb485deefffe98f90397e2a.mp3) ## [Did We Get Hungary Wrong?](https://wisdomofcrowds.live/p/did-we-get-hungary-wrong) _2026-04-19 · Damir Marusic, Shadi Hamid, and Julian G. Waller · Wisdom of Crowds_ This week, Damir and Shadi are joined by Julian Waller, Professorial Lecturer in Political Science at George Washington University and co-author of Autocrats Can’t Always Get What They Want: State Institutions and Autonomy under Authoritarianism . The occasion is an awkward one for a certain kind of democracy discourse: Viktor Orbán was last weekend thrown out in a landslide by Péter Magyar’s… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/194650822/3b2dea0a93bf25ef252948b036f2ac3c.mp3) ## [Anti-Politics and the Counter-Revolution](https://wisdomofcrowds.live/p/anti-politics-and-the-counter-revolution) _2026-04-14 · Damir Marusic and Samuel Kimbriel · Wisdom of Crowds_ Samuel Kimbriel was in Italy the other week, where he sat down with Rome-based political theorist Giovanni Orsina to talk about European populism. The conversation starts with Giorgia Meloni, who, Orsina argues, is more a pragmatic traditional right-wing politician than a true populist. It then turns to a deeper things. Previewing his upcoming book Counter-Revolution, Orsina claims that after the… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/194156892/2fdc5f9ea0bfabf363d44aed3b71cd96.mp3) ## [Peter Beinart on Why the "Right to Exist" is the Wrong Question](https://wisdomofcrowds.live/p/peter-beinart-on-why-the-right-to) _2026-04-01 · Damir Marusic, Shadi Hamid, and Peter Beinart · Wisdom of Crowds_ This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wisdomofcrowds.live Last week, Shadi wrote a controversial essay over at Wisdom of Crowds titled “ Does Israel Have a Right to Exist? ” This week, we had our friend Peter Beinart on to the show to unpack the question some more. Peter is, among many other things , a contributing writer for the New York Times and the author of Being… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/192809895/e63b0fcf6800439a244073c311b753fe.mp3) ## [What Ails the Left?](https://wisdomofcrowds.live/p/what-ails-the-left) _2026-03-17 · Shadi Hamid, Samuel Kimbriel, and Jonny Thakkar · Wisdom of Crowds_ This week, Shadi and Sam sat down with Jonny Thakkar, an Assistant Professor in Political Science at Swarthmore College and one of the founding editors of the invaluable The Point magazine. In a recent essay in The Point, Jonny argues that the left’s organizing framework — reducing injustice and pursuing equality — is inherently negative and distributional, and therefore fails to inspire the kind… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/191205044/04dcd251a991359caa568839bd622880.mp3) ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/clipoYyBKSNz) _2026-03-17 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [Cameron Kasky on How Israel Lost America](https://wisdomofcrowds.live/p/theres-no-going-back) _2026-03-07 · Shadi Hamid, Cameron Kasky, and Damir Marusic · Wisdom of Crowds_ This week, Shadi and Damir hosted Cameron Kasky — a rising young activist in the Democratic Party and former congressional candidate for New York’s 12th District — who gave us a glimpse into where American politics might be headed. Cameron started his career as a gun control advocate after surviving the Parkland shooting. For his efforts, he was named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/190221878/74eb413373e2d4803ff9757ee80f672b.mp3)