Zuby Grew up in a Company Town
Zuby is a British rapper who spent his childhood on a Saudi Aramco compound—a sprawling corporate community complete with schools, recreation, housing, and services. We discuss what it was like growin...
24 Kesä 51min
(Preview) Vampire Bats Thwart Henry Ford
Henry Ford revolutionized manufacturing, built the modern automobile industry, and amassed one of the greatest fortunes in American history. Then he decided to conquer the Amazon. In this installment ...
18 Kesä 8min
(Preview) The Socialist Who Bought a Town
Robert Owen was a factory owner, a social reformer, the father of British socialism… and possibly the nicest company-town tyrant in history. Long before Karl Marx called for revolution, Owen tried to...
11 Kesä 7min
The Emperor of Epcot: Walt Disney and Company Towns
What if your landlord was also your boss, mayor, bartender, and moral hall monitor? This week, Andrew Heaton talks with Brian Brushwood about the strange history of company towns—from industrial utopi...
10 Kesä 1h 8min
Privacy Through a Cop's Eyes
Mike is a twenty-year police officer and current sergeant supervising a squad of violent crime detectives. After Andrew's recent conversation with Naomi Brockwell about surveillance, encryption, and t...
3 Kesä 51min
The Old Political Order Is Dying: Stephen Davies on the Great Realignment
"Leftwing" and "Rightwing" don't mean the same thing anymore–the battle lines are redrawing. The twentieth century was about economics: low taxes or big government. The twenty-first century will be a ...
27 Touko 1h 21min
The Great Baby Shortage
For decades, intellectuals warned that overpopulation would trigger famine, ecological collapse, and mass death. Instead, humanity may now face the opposite problem. In this episode of The Political O...
20 Touko 1h 6min
