{"podcast":{"title":"Liberalism in Question | CIS","slug":"liberalism-in-question-cis-6619332","podcast_index_feed_id":6619332,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/liberalisminquestion/feed.xml","website_url":"https://liberalisminquestion.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16998142/avatars-DJXhYZRcsEb9CjJu-4KAqtg-original.jpg","author":"Robert Forsyth | Centre for Independent Studies","episode_count":92,"summary":"Are you looking for sound, thought-provoking conversations on current affairs, politics, and culture from a Classical Liberal perspective? If yes, you are in the right place. Liberalism in Question engages some of our society’s most prominent researchers, political figures, and free speech advocates --finding out their views on the state of Classical Liberalism.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-25T22:19:40.716888+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/liberalism-in-question-cis-6619332"},"episode":{"title":"Rebuilding the Open Society | Roger Partridge","slug":"rebuilding-the-open-society-roger-partridge","published_at":"2025-11-18T08:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/liberalism-in-question-cis-6619332/rebuilding-the-open-society-roger-partridge","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/liberalism-in-question-cis-6619332","url":"https://liberalisminquestion.podbean.com/e/rebuilding-the-open-society-roger-partridge/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/zh42j4kvbdqbw5aw/Rodget_Patridge6dc02.mp3","summary":"👉 Visit cis.org.au to access all our content. In this episode of Liberalism in Question, we dive into Roger Partridge’s provocative Quillette essay, ”Classical Liberalism Without Strong Gods”, where he challenges the rise of ”strong gods” like religion and nationalism as antidotes to liberal society’s spiritual void. You can read the article here: https://quillette.com/2025/06/10/classical-liberalism-without-strong-gods-open-society-popper/ As Chairman and co-founder of The New Zealand Initiative, Roger defends Karl Popper’s vision of the open society. He argues that epistemic humility, critical inquiry, and moral seriousness can foster cohesion without authoritarian risks, while proposing fixes like civic education reform, housing deregulation, welfare tweaks to support families, and local autonomy. Join us as Roger unpacks liberalism’s drift, the threats from identity politics and relativism, and a bold path forward. 👉 Support Sound Research: 🔹 Become a member: https://www.cis.org.au/membership-2-step-1/ 🔹 Make a donation: https://www.cis.org.au/support/donate/today/ 🔹 Learn more: https://www.cis.org.au/","meta_description":"👉 Visit cis.org.au to access all our content. In this episode of Liberalism in Question, we dive into Roger Partridge’s provocative Quillette essay, ”Clas…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2445,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/liberalism-in-question-cis-6619332/episodes/rebuilding-the-open-society-roger-partridge/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/liberalism-in-question-cis-6619332/rebuilding-the-open-society-roger-partridge.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}