Faith, Politics, and the Future of America | A Conversation with Stephanie Slade @giojoey2023

Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

In this episode of The Gio & Joey Show, we sit down with Stephanie Slade, senior editor at Reason magazine, to discuss her new book, Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right (University of Notre Dame Press).

Stephanie unpacks fusionism, the philosophy that once held together the classical liberal defense of individual freedom and the Judeo-Christian commitment to moral virtue, and how it shaped the modern conservative movement after World War II. We talk about why that synthesis has come apart in recent decades, what's driving the rise of a more power-oriented politics on the right, and why she believes liberty and virtue still need each other for a society to truly flourish.

This is a conversation about faith, culture, liberty, and truth, and what it will take to recover a politics rooted in both freedom and character.

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Faith, Politics, and the Future of America | A Conversation with Stephanie Slade

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