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I don't think most of the influential liberal thinkers are podcasting, as opposed to writing. Some good ones to read:
https://www.slowboring.com/archive?sort=new
https://noahpinion.substack.com/archive
https://modelcitizen.substack.com/
https://www.nytimes.com/column/paul-krugman
https://nymag.com/author/jonathan-chait/
Look at the titles, BTW. You'll see no promotion of anything that one could call "trans ideology."
In terms of books, I'm just halfway through one now that I'd recommend: Brad DeLong's Slouching Towards Utopia. One that's had probably the biggest influence on me moving left has been the Everyman's Library collection of Orwell essays, though that's not fair to recommend (1,400-plus pages). Side note: the man is spinning in his grave and rightist attempts to appropriate him. I dislike Pinker, and the book has some issues, but overall I think Enlightenment Now is a good look at the case for liberalism. Kurt Andersen's Fantasyland is another great one. If you like classics, Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments is a key one. Another good recent one is Joe Henrich's The WEIRDest People in the World.
But there is no such evidence. It's a lunatic scare like ritual Satanic abuse in the '80s or something.
I said that it's crazy to think that being harsher on trans people is a more important issue than things like the economy, healthcare, the environment, etc.
I think that's a personal attack that you're throwing out because I disagree with you about some things (I don't think there's much of a culture of reasoned disagreement on the right). I think you'll find that there's no one here less partisan than I am (and note that I was the only person who really took a serious stab at the question you asked). I do, of course, believe in always trying to do the right thing morally and in getting factual issues right.
you can take that as a jab at you but i'm not jabbing but expressing how you come off to me. so i wanted to know how you view yourself. you say you aren't partisan and are against oligarchs but do you vote all blue every election cycle? that does not compute.
i will check out the recommendations you provided. thank you. in regard to the word utopia - it's greek word meaning "no place."
and there is evidence to suggest that trans ideology is being spread at all levels of society so i disagree with you that it's just an 80s satanism boogeyman re-appropriated to modern times.
cheers.