Liberalism in Question | CIS

By Robert Forsyth | Centre for Independent Studies

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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.

Episode Date
A Nation of Strangers: How a civic vacuum enabled antisemitism | Alex McDermott
Jun 25, 2026
Is Islam Compatible with Classical Liberalism? Part 2 with Dr. Mark Durie
Jun 03, 2026
Is Islam Compatible with Classical Liberalism? Part 1 with Dr. Samir Mahmoud
Jun 02, 2026
The Temptations of Unfreedom Revisited | Dr Oliver Hartwich
May 26, 2026
What classical liberals get wrong about the rest of the World | Alexandre Lefebvre
May 19, 2026
Is Australia Doomed? | Marian L. Tupy
May 04, 2026
The Australian Dream is Dead | Parnell Palme McGuinness
Apr 14, 2026
Education Reform in Australia | Jennifer Buckingham
Feb 16, 2026
Australia's Liberal Odyssey: Tracing Freedom's Path | Dr Greg Melleuish
Feb 09, 2026
A Case for Helpful Government Intervention | Emma Dawson
Feb 02, 2026
Indigenous Expectations are Skewed | Senator Kerrynne Liddle
Jan 26, 2026
"People are just sick of it" | Alexander Downer
Jan 19, 2026
A Short History of Liberalism in the Middle East | Joshua Landis
Jan 13, 2026
Trump and the red wave | Dave Rubin
Jan 06, 2026
The Tradition of Liberty | Senator James Paterson
Dec 23, 2025
The Tension Between Classical Liberalism and Conservatism | Gray Connolly
Dec 16, 2025
Rebuilding the Open Society | Roger Partridge
Nov 18, 2025
Peter Costello on the Legacy of Reform and the Road Ahead
Nov 06, 2025
The Erosion of Australian Values | Mark Leach
Sep 09, 2025
Democracy’s Silent Guardian: Education | Trisha Jha
Aug 19, 2025
The Hidden Cost of Big Government | Robert Carling
Aug 12, 2025
National Identity vs Moral Diversity: Can Australia Hold Together? | Peter Kurti & Jude Blik
Jul 23, 2025
The Freedom Trap: The Chains of Choice | Priyan Max Jeganathan
Jun 24, 2025
Grounded Liberty: Liberalism’s Moral Roots | Michael Bird
Jun 17, 2025
The science of learning will set students free | Glenn Fahey
Jun 11, 2025
In Defence of Jordan Peterson | Rohan McHugh
Jun 03, 2025
Liberalism in the Shadows: The Intellectual Dark Web and the Struggle for Free Thought | Jamie Q. Roberts
May 20, 2025
Faith and Freedom: Evangelical Christianity in Liberal Australia | Stuart Piggin
May 06, 2025
The Economic Philosophy of Liberalism | Eamonn Butler
Apr 15, 2025
Trump’s Tariffs Hurt Consumers | Johan Norberg
Apr 08, 2025
The History of Liberalism (Part 2) | Simon Heffer
Apr 01, 2025
The History of Liberalism (Part 1) | Simon Heffer
Mar 18, 2025
Liberalism and Education | Andrew Norton
Mar 04, 2025
Trump, TikTok, and the new face of global power | Senator James Paterson & Emilie Dye
Feb 15, 2025
Navigating the Ethics of Colonial History | Nigel Biggar
Feb 13, 2025
The Sexual Revolution & the Role of Families| Mary Eberstadt
Feb 11, 2025
The Tension Between Freedom, Liberty, and Responsibility | David Kinley
Nov 21, 2024
Power of Individualism | Ron Manners
Nov 07, 2024
North Korea: The Origins of Its Unique Family Dictatorship | Nicholas Eberstadt
Oct 10, 2024
From Conversion to Classical Liberalism: The Influence of Ludwig von Mises | Dr. Jonathan Cole
Sep 26, 2024
The History of Liberalism in Iran | Behnam Ben Taleblu
Sep 12, 2024
The Strange, Recent But Understandable Triumph of Liberalism in Australia | Bob Catley
Aug 29, 2024
Jimmy Lai’s Son Speaks Out | Sebastian Lai & Caoilfhionn Gallagher
Aug 01, 2024
Why the 2023 Voice Referendum Failed | Damian Freeman
Jul 18, 2024
American Liberalism and the Middle East | Bret Stephens
Jul 05, 2024
Is the market more efficient than the government? | Robert Carling
May 18, 2024
Being a Rational Optimist in a Woke World | Matthew Ridley
May 07, 2024
Can Humanity Sustain Its Growth? | Marian Tupy
Apr 03, 2024
The Western World at a Tipping Point | Sherelle Jacobs
Mar 25, 2024
Will AI Destroy us all? | Larry Marshall
Mar 07, 2024
How Woke Won | Joanna Williams
Feb 21, 2024
Restart dialogue between faith and reason | David de Carvalho
Feb 12, 2024
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price's Insightful Outlook
Feb 06, 2024
Is liberalism suffocating in the UK? | Fraser Nelson
Jan 31, 2024
Nukes for the next generation | William Shackel
Jan 24, 2024
Battle Between Liberalism vs Nationalism | John Mearsheimer
Jan 16, 2024
Howardism, ideals and power | Andrew Blyth
Dec 07, 2023
Chaos in society creates freedom | David Hart
Dec 07, 2023
How Trump killed liberalism | Jason Riley
Nov 01, 2023
Do groups have rights? | Dr. Joel Harrison
Oct 31, 2023
Australian laws FAIL to protect freedom | Patrick Parkinson
Oct 30, 2023
How to Think Like an Economist | Peter Tulip
Sep 26, 2023
The Voice to Parliament with Professor Duncan Ivison
Sep 13, 2023
S3E9 | Lorraine Finlay ’human rights that give us our humanity’
Nov 22, 2022
S3E8 | Roslyn Fuller | That’s not democracy, this is democracy!
Nov 15, 2022
S3E7 | Sabine Beppler-Spahl | Challenges and opportunities for liberalism in Germany
Nov 08, 2022
S3E6 | Claire Lehmann | Against tribalism. Take an empirical not emotional approach
Nov 01, 2022
S3E5 | Mike Bird | A theologian who thinks secularism is a particularly good thing
Oct 25, 2022
S3E4 | Steven Schwartz | Liberalism: the winner in the battle of ideas but the loser on the ground
Oct 18, 2022
S3E3 | Emilie Dye | ‘I’m the expert in me’ —the value of individual freedom
Oct 11, 2022
S3E2 | Tom Switzer | The power of choice that makes society better—even if it not appreciated
Oct 04, 2022
S3E1 | Ruth Richardson | What is needed to revive liberalism? Ideas and a spine!
Sep 27, 2022
S2E10 | Nick Cater ‘Liberalism needs moral vision not just economics’
Feb 08, 2022
S2E9 | Gordon Menzies ‘Liberalism as fundamentalism?’
Feb 01, 2022
S2E8 | Simon Mordant ‘Why liberalism is essential to the arts’
Jan 25, 2022
S2E7 | Nyunggai Warren Mundine ‘Liberalism says No to the Voice to Parliament!’
Jan 18, 2022
S2E6 | Andrew Bragg ‘Liberalism says Yes to the Voice to Parliament!’
Jan 11, 2022
S2E5 | Chandran Kukathas ‘Liberalism is scepticism of power’
Jan 04, 2022
S2E4 | Hannes H. Gissurarson ‘Liberalism needs conservatism too’
Dec 28, 2021
S2E3 | David Kemp ‘Liberalism’s remarkable Australian Story’
Dec 21, 2021
S2E2 | Simon Cowan ‘Economic liberalism under threat’
Dec 14, 2021
S2E1 | Henry Ergas ‘The heart of liberalism’
Dec 07, 2021
S1E10 | Peter Kurti ’Liberalism questioned’
Feb 01, 2021
S1E9 | Simon Haines ’Liberalism is best understood by studying its origins’
Jan 25, 2021
S1E8 | Michael Spence ’The university as a crucial institution in the liberal community’
Jan 18, 2021
S1E7 | Parnell McGuinness ’Against simplistic ideology—even liberalism as a simplistic ideology’
Jan 11, 2021
S1E6 | Glenn Fahey ’Yes, Classical Liberalism is under threat’
Jan 05, 2021
S1E5 | Tim Wilson ’Why liberalism needs a new social contract to be renewed’
Dec 29, 2020
S1E4 | Stan Grant “We can’t allow our liberalism to be historically blind.”
Dec 22, 2020
S1E3 | Salvatore Babones ’Unashamedly upbeat about liberalism— “More Fukuyama than Fukuyama.”’
Dec 15, 2020
S1E2 | Ian Harper ’Liberalism—both a prejudice to freedom and a delicate flower’
Dec 08, 2020
S1E1 | John Howard ’Liberalism and the ‘Broad Church.’
Dec 01, 2020