by Geoff Shullenberger
Anchored by Geoff Shullenberger and Ashley Frawley, Blame Theory takes a seriously playful look at the ideas that have shaped our minds and our world, to ask: How have we ended up here, and whom or what can we blame? <br/><br/><a href="https://compactmag.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">compactmag.substack.com</a>
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March 17, 2025
<p>Geoff Shullenberger and Ashley Frawley continue to explore the crisis of liberalism. They begin by discussing recent reversals around free-speech debates in the United States and the odd fact that ostensible post- and anti-liberals have often positioned themselves as defenders of a central liberal value: free speech. They then begin to explore the postliberal critique and other blame narratives that have arisen around liberalism in recent years and ask whether the problem with liberalism is that it grants too much freedom, or too little.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://compactmag.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">compactmag.substack.com/subscribe</a>
March 7, 2025
<p>Liberalism is in crisis. Its parties and institutions are suffering one setback after another across the West, and forces described as “illiberal” are on the rise globally. But when did this crisis begin? Was liberalism ever not in crisis? Is liberalism itself a kind of crisis? In the first episode of a longer series on the meanings and legacies of liberalism, Ashley Frawley and Geoff Shullenberger lay out the themes and questions that will inform their exploration of an ideology that has received plenty of blame from both the right and the left—in part because it has been the dominant one for hundreds of years. In this conversation, Ashley explains why the conflict between social and political liberalism and economic liberalism is foundational to the modern world, and constitutes a crisis that liberalism has never been able to transcend.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://compactmag.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">compactmag.substack.com/subscribe</a>
January 17, 2025
<p>Geoff and Ashley discuss the online war of the sexes prompted by a recent mass shooting, which Ashley <a target="_blank" href="https://www.compactmag.com/article/school-shooters-and-the-gender-wars/">wrote about</a> last month. They then explore the deeper roots of the gendered blame game that often defines our online culture wars.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://compactmag.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2">compactmag.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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