In this special end-of-year episode, TAI staff and contributors speak with Richard Aldous about the best books they read in 2018.

How can fragile democracies undo their legacy of violence and find a path to security? Rachel Kleinfeld joins Richard Aldous on the podcast to discuss.

What do we talk about when we talk about liberalism? Helena Rosenblatt discusses her new intellectual history of the word and the idea.

Have decentralizing reforms actually made democracies less accountable to the people? Just after the midterms, Yale’s Ian Shapiro joins the podcast to discuss.

Oren Cass joins the podcast to discuss his new book on what ails our labor market, and how to fix it.

What will politics look like in a “world transformed by tech”? Jamie Susskind joins the podcast to discuss.

Reihan Salam joins to discuss his new book making the case against open borders.

Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff discuss the crisis on college campuses today.

Francis Fukuyama kicks off TAI’s new podcast season with a discussion of his timely new book on identity politics.

Sulmaan Wasif Khan discusses his new book tracing the history of Chinese grand strategy, from Mao to Xi.