Episode 71: The Debt Ceiling Disaster Scenario
Send us Fan Mail Every couple of years, our elected representatives play a game of chicken that’s the subject of breathless headlines predicting dire consequences. Will we or won’t we avert financial...
18 Jun 202347min
Episode 70: Must We All Have Smartphones?
Send us Fan Mail It’s getting more and more difficult to live one’s life without owning a smartphone. After holding out for years, Joe finally broke down and got one after both his employer and his f...
4 Jun 202336min
Episode 69: Why Increased Productivity Doesn’t Create More Leisure
Send us Fan Mail It appears we’ve been sold a bill of goods. For the longest time, workers have been told that innovative new technology is going to improve productivity and lead to shorter work week...
21 Mai 202349min
Episode 68: : Those Namby-Pamby NIMBYs
Send us Fan Mail Though not strictly a partisan phenomenon, the knee-jerk NIMBY ("not in my backyard") reaction is an impulse that wealthy liberals and progressives employ in many different contexts, ...
30 Apr 202333min
Episode 67: The Best Pop Song Ever Written?
Send us Fan Mail For the first time, Mansplaining tackles a question posed by one of its listeners! This particular question doesn’t have a single correct answer, but it does lend itself to spirited ...
16 Apr 202340min
Is Cord-Cutting a Looming Apocalypse for Pro Sports?
Send us Fan Mail The recent bankruptcy of a large regional sports network that carries the games of nearly half the teams in MLB, the NBA and NHL has some people wondering what happens when the old ec...
25 Mar 202348min
Episode 65: What Critical Race Theory Is (and Is Not)
Send us Fan Mail Conservative politicians love their bogeymen, and you can make a good argument that the bogeyman du jour in American politics is critical race theory. It’s a constant topic in conser...
5 Mar 202341min
Episode 64: Is Aging a Disease?
Send us Fan Mail A growing chorus of biogerontologists thinks aging is a treatable disease rather than a natural process that leads to disease for some people. It’s easy to be cynical about the motiv...
18 Feb 202349min
