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.