Kshitij Kant: India's global strategy, domestic reform, and (hopefully) growth

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:13:44 GMT

As bad liberals ourselves, we venture to explore a country oh-so-close to being labeled a liberal regime: India, the world's largest democracy. Alongside Kshitij Kant, a Stanford sophomore and research assistant at the Hoover Institution on India's foreign relations, we take on a wide-ranging conversation, from the BJP's dominance to prospects for economic growth to why India is reluctant to play along with the United States.

Kshitij shares an understated perspective on India's role in the global order: possibly the next dragon in the waiting.

Victoria Ren: The Abundance movement and policy entrepreneurship

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:12:47 GMT

Welcome to Bad Liberals! As our first guest, we have a very good liberal, in fact someone on the front lines working to revitalize liberalism itself: Victoria Ren, a recent Stanford graduate and co-founder of Students for Abundance, a campus advocacy group supporting supply-side progressivism—that is, more houses, more roads, more energy, more healthcare.

Together, we tackle the big questions in American politics: hope, change, community, action, strategy, and ideology. Because big policy action starts with a big ponder.