What is the Cure for Post-Trump Stress Disorder? (Asking for a Planet I Know.)
Donald Trump is very nearly gone. The damage he has done will take years to repair. Where do we start? Socially? Politically? Economically? At home? With the rest of the world? What should our priorit...
7 Des 202052min
The One in Which They Scare the Shit Out of You
We are about to enter a period of national catastrophe unlike any we have ever seen, unlike the past year, unlike wars through which we have lived. Mass death during this time is preventable if you li...
3 Des 202056min
What Comes After WTF? The Future of American Leadership in the Biden Era
We went from the bi-polar world to the uni-polar world to WTF. The question now is "What comes after WTF?" Is it a restoration? An attempt to squeeze out another few years of the American Century? Dec...
30 Nov 202051min
Songs of Experience
Wait, what? A president who actually has foreign policy experience? A national security team that is not comprised of traitors, crackpots, sycophants, and corrupt relatives? Joe Biden seems to be intr...
23 Nov 202051min
Megashocker: A Normal Conversation About Policy and Politics
We go where no one else dares: To imagine a Trumpless future, a normal American president doing normal American president-y things like making domestic and foreign policy, succeeding sometimes, falter...
19 Nov 202054min
First Principles: The Surprising Truth About What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans...for Better and for Worse
Pulitzer Prize-winner Tom Ricks, one of America's foremost journalists and authors, has a new book called "First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Sha...
16 Nov 202048min
Are We Entering What Will Be the Least Festive Holiday Season in Our Lifetimes?
With COVID spiking we will pass over 450,000 dead of the pandemic within months. Hospitals and morgues are being stretched past capacity. The White House has given up doing anything about the crisis a...
13 Nov 202059min
Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy...But We're Not Out of the Woods Yet
Donald Trump's defeat is a watershed in modern U.S. history and a relief for so many of us that it may do permanent damage to the sales of Tums and headache medications. Which is a good thing. But, ha...
9 Nov 202047min
