I speak with UK academic Dr Daniel Pitt about his recent book on Post-liberalism and the Future of Conservatism. We discuss among other things:

• The situation in the UK today and why, despite having many erudite and interesting intellectuals, journalists, podcasters on the right, British politics is such a basket case at the moment
• How British conservatism differs from conservatism in the new world
• Whether and how liberals and conservatism should cooperate?
• Why Australia does not have the same intellectual tradition when it comes to "conservatism"
• What "national conservatism" actually means and how it differs (if at all) from past versions of conservatism
• Where "red toryism" and "blue labour" are now
• What a post-liberal and future conservative future looks like.

And much more.

My guest today is Tim Andrews is Director of Consumer Issues for Americans for Tax Reform based in Washington DC.

He was previously Executive Director of the Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance is or has been on the boards of a host of free market think tanks globally including the HR Nicholls Society, and the Australian Libertarian Society. He previously ran the very successful Friedman Conferences in Sydney for many years.

We discussed:

• The current mood in Washington DC and how people are reacting
• His interpretation of Trump policy framework and whether it really differs from the previous Reagan centre-right Washington Consensus
• His views on Ukraine war
• His views on immigration and his personal experience with the Cronulla Riots in Sydney
• Our long standing argument on trade policy and why he still is in favour of free trade
• Whether if any of his policy positions have changed since Trump rise in 2015.
• How the Trump presidency could go wrong and whether the current national conservative moment could in turn followed by a more libertarian moment in due course

And much more.

Jordan and Dan catch up to discuss the US Election (with joy)!

Among other things we discuss:

• Why Gen X and Gen X swung strongly behind Trump
• How Trump 2024 differs from 2016
• What the new coalition of Tech Bros (Elon, Theil, etc), Media Bros (Rogan, Tucket, etc) , Health Bros (RFK Jr, etc), and Thinking Bros (JD Vance, Vivek, etc) make the MAGA agenda stronger and more durable
• How the Australian mainstream media and the political class still don't get it
• How the UK political class are especially clueless
• How it could all go wrong and right over the next 4 years