How Zoning Laws Screwed Up Everything
Housing regulations have resulted in widespread urban sprawl, ethnic redlining, multi-generational poverty, and all manner of other ills. Jeff Maurer of "I Might Be Wrong" on Substack and Jeremiah Jo...
25 Aug 20211h 2min
Bonus: The Alternative to Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill dealt with evil by confrontation. What's his opposite? This is a bonus history episode from July of last year, in the context of the forthcoming 2020 election and the George Floyd pr...
19 Aug 202131min
Nation Building Failed in Afghanistan
Could we have fixed things if we stayed? Kabul fell to the Taliban on Sunday, which is quickly reorganizing their regime after getting ousted twenty years ago by the United States. Was nation buil...
17 Aug 20211h 19min
Andrew Sullivan is a Gay Catholic Conservative
Andrew Sullivan is an author and blogger best-known for his substack The Weekly Dish. His new book is "Out On a Limb: Selected Writing, 1989-2021" chronicling sexuality, politics, and religion fro...
11 Aug 20211h 2min
Harvard vs Asians: Affirmative Action and Racial Quotas
Affirmative Action is potentially one Supreme Court case away from going extinct. When is racial prioritizing constitutional? Is it ever a good policy idea? Anastasia Boden is a senior attorney at the...
4 Aug 202158min
Cancel Culture Is Mostly Rich White People
Dan Kovalik is the author of "Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture." Kovalik, a long-time labor activist, union attorney, and human rights lawyer, joins the show to talk about...
28 Jul 202155min
Would You Maroon Jeff Bezos in Space?
Over a hundred thousand people signed a petition calling to ban the world's richest man from returning to Earth: "billionaires shouldn't exist." In this episode we explore the difference between relat...
22 Jul 202135min
Why Comedy Became Toothless
Are late night comedy and political satire as free wheeling and funny as they used to be? Or has comedy become simultaneously tame yet partisan? Jeff Maurer is former senior writer for "Last Week ...
14 Jul 20211h 8min
