
MLK and Color Blindness
Clayborne Carson is the Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education institute, and hand-picked by Coretta King to publish the letters of his late husband. He's one of the foremost h...
19 Tammi 48min

The Friendship Recession and Cocktail Parties
Or... how to host a party if you have Asperger's. Nick Gray is an entrepreneur and an author living in Austin, Texas. I met him roller skating. He started and sold two successful companies: Flight Dis...
14 Tammi 1h 15min

I Explain Venezuela Using Lottery Tickets
How did Venezuela become an economic basket case? Not socialism. Or capitalism. Venezuela is a textbook example of a petrostate in the thrall of the Paradox of Plenty, or "the Dutch Disease." Bonus:...
9 Tammi 1h

Is Everyone Disabled Now? (WSPN)
College students are increasingly registering as disabled–particularly at high-end universities, which often entails longer test times and extensions on papers. Does the growing rate of accommodation ...
31 Joulu 20251h 7min

Heaton and Monkey: Yuletide Spysolvers
Our Annual Christmas Comedy Special. In which, our intrepid heroes must save Christmas from a debauched algorithm, navigate treacherous honeypots, and escape a federal penitentiary in this modern yule...
23 Joulu 202559min

Jason Pargin on Internet Addiction and Algorithmic Horror
Former Cracked.com editor Jason Pargin explores the subject of how social media makes us insane and warps the universe we're in, in his new book "I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom." H...
17 Joulu 20251h 22min

The Secret Map of Supreme Court Justices
Sarah Isgur is a senior editor at SCOTUS Blog, host of the Advisory Opinions podcast, and a contributor at ABC News. She is the author of the forthcoming book "Last Branch Standing," which available f...
11 Joulu 202559min

Freddie deBoer: What It's Like to Have a Mental Breakdown
Freddie deBoer is a writer, academic, and cultural critic. He is a widely-read author on Substack, an old-school Marxist, who has previously been on the program to explain what Marxists actually think...
3 Joulu 20251h 9min



















