Best Joshua Ben Rosen Podcasts (2025)

In this episode of the Pluralist Points podcast, Ben Klutsey, the executive director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, speaks with Jeffrey Rosen, the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, about the Founders’ understanding of the pursuit of happiness and how it relates to virtue. They discuss the notion of bounded l…

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Kurt Weyland on Populism vs. Pluralism 45:30

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In this episode of the Pluralist Points podcast, Ben Klutsey, the executive director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, speaks with Kurt Weyland, the Mike Hogg Professor in Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin, about the rise of populism. They discuss what factors contribute to populism, how worried we should be about i…

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Kurt Gray on Moving Beyond Moral Outrage 39:42

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In this episode of the Pluralist Points podcast, Ben Klutsey, the executive director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, speaks with Kurt Gray, a psychology and neuroscience professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, about our moral understanding and how we react to perceived threats. They discuss why a “protection” n…

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Shira Hoffer on Curious Disagreement 38:18

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In this episode of the Pluralist Points podcast, Ben Klutsey, the executive director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, speaks with Shira Hoffer, the founder and executive director of the Institute for Multipartisan Education, about her work as a mediator and the importance of curious disagreement. They discuss self-censorship among…

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Daryl Davis on How to Fight Hatred 43:04

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In this episode of the Pluralist Points podcast, Ben Klutsey, the executive director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, speaks with author, activist and musician Daryl Davis, who is known for his work confronting racism through dialogue. They discuss Davis’ first encounter with a member of the Ku Klux Klan, his determination to disc…

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Corey Brettschneider on Citizen Checks on Presidential Power 42:38

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In this episode of the Pluralist Points podcast, Ben Klutsey, the executive director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, speaks with Corey Brettschneider, a professor of political science at Brown University, about his new book, “The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought To Defen…

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Musa al-Gharbi on Symbolic Capital and Social Justice 1:11:19

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In this episode of the Pluralist Points podcast, Ben Klutsey, the executive director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, speaks with Musa al-Gharbi, an assistant professor of journalism, communication and sociology at Stony Brook University, about his forthcoming book, “We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New El…

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Ilana Redstone on Escaping the Certainty Trap 36:47

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In this episode of the Pluralist Points podcast, Ben Klutsey, the executive director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, speaks with Ilana Redstone, a professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, about her new book, “The Certainty Trap: Why We Need To Question Ourselves More—and How We Can Judge Others Le…

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Joshua Cherniss on Cultivating an Ethos of Tempered Liberalism 1:02:46

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In this re-release of an installment of a series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the executive director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, talks with Joshua Cherniss, an associate professor of government at Georgetown University, about challenges to liberalism in the mid-20th century, the current liberal predicament, the thinkers w…

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Yuval Levin on Acting Together While Thinking Differently 47:09

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In this episode of the Pluralist Points podcast, Ben Klutsey, the executive director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, speaks with Yuval Levin, editor-in-chief of National Affairs magazine and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, about the Constitution as a unity document, the relationship between liberalism and re…

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Amanda Ripley on High Conflict to Good Conflict 51:03

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In this re-release of an installment of a series on liberalism, Benjamin Klutsey, the executive director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, talks with Amanda Ripley, an investigative journalist and author, about the benefits of not watching the news, the conflict industrial complex, whether divisions in the U.S. are getting worse, t…

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Alan Charles Kors on the Need for Mutual Forbearance 48:16

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In this re-release of the first installment of an interview series on liberalism, Ben Klutsey, the executive director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, speaks with Alan Charles Kors about the history of liberalism, the proper purpose of education, and the core liberal value of mutual forbearance. Kors is the Henry Charles Lea Profe…

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Josiah Ober on Democracy as a Civic Bargain 40:45

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In this episode of the Pluralist Points podcast, Ben Klutsey, the executive director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, speaks with Josiah Ober, a professor of political science and classics at Stanford University, about democracy as a bargain among citizens, the necessity of civic education, the challenges of scaling democracy as p…

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Welcome to Pluralist Points 1:25

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America has always had factions; they are a feature—not a flaw—of representative democracy. However, when civil discourse breaks down, these factions can become so entrenched that we face the dangers of toxic polarization. This is where learning and adopting pluralism becomes crucial. Welcome to Pluralist Points, where we unpack the challenges and …

Joshua Ben Rosen Podcasts

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Pluralist Points with Ben Klutsey

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Tyler Cowen 50:07

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Ron Moelis 40:50

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Robert Wolf 36:39

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Larry Summers 25:16

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Jeffrey Rosen on Virtue and the Pursuit of Happiness 38:15

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Kurt Weyland on Populism vs. Pluralism 45:30

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Kurt Gray on Moving Beyond Moral Outrage 39:42

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Shira Hoffer on Curious Disagreement 38:18

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Daryl Davis on How to Fight Hatred 43:04

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Corey Brettschneider on Citizen Checks on Presidential Power 42:38

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Musa al-Gharbi on Symbolic Capital and Social Justice 1:11:19

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Ilana Redstone on Escaping the Certainty Trap 36:47

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Joshua Cherniss on Cultivating an Ethos of Tempered Liberalism 1:02:46

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Yuval Levin on Acting Together While Thinking Differently 47:09

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Amanda Ripley on High Conflict to Good Conflict 51:03

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Alan Charles Kors on the Need for Mutual Forbearance 48:16

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Josiah Ober on Democracy as a Civic Bargain 40:45

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Welcome to Pluralist Points 1:25