Negotiating Ideas is a Podcast about liberty, democracy, and pluralism in Afghanistan and around the world. I am Omar Sadr, a scholar in exile, forced to flee my homeland overnight due to the Taliban’s brutality. In this podcast, as in my research, I explore how totalitarianism threatens democracy and the ways in which societies reinstitute freedom, democracy, and pluralism. My goal is to create a space for those who value pluralism, democracy, and liberty to find each other to develop solidarity and clarity.
Samuel Moyn and Omar Sadr discuss failures of Cold War liberalism and the challenges of contemporary liberalism.
Samuel Moyn is the Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University. Trained in modern European intellectual history, he works on political and legal thought in modern times...
Published 11/06/24
Omar Sadr discusses how refugee academics navigated the American academia with Halil Yenigun and Alfred Babo.
Alfred is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Fairfield University, Connecticut.
Halil is the Associate Director of the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford...
Published 07/22/24