Grover Norquist at Burning Man (Rebroadcast)
Burning Man is a giant, 80,000-person party in the desert, complete with a crazy amount of neon, bicycles, and narcotics. Grover Norquist is a powerful Republican, alternately famous or infamous for c...
19 Feb 1h 7min
Governing through Blockchain: Techno-Communes (Preview)
Jonathan Hillis is the founder and caretaker of Cabin, a network of co-living spaces which link up and vet members in other communities via blockchain technology. His "neighborhood" of intentional liv...
17 Feb 15min
How to Build a Commune: Samwise Rodriguez
If you wanted to live with a bunch of buddies in a house, how would you do it? What are the mechanics of setting up, financing, and socially maintaining a commune? Samwise Rodriguez runs a commune—whi...
16 Feb 1h 12min
Jeff Flake Alone on an Island with a Knife
What happens when Trump leaves office? Do the Republicans reform or catalyze? Jeff Flake is the former Executive Director of the Goldwater Institute, Ambassador to Turkey, and representative and then...
11 Feb 49min
The Map That Explains Everything About America: Colin Woodard
Colin Woodard posits that America is not really a country, it's a dozen or so distinct nations with their own cultures and ideologies which are constantly battling for supremacy. His new book "Nations...
4 Feb 1h 21min
America is Eleven Different Countries (Rebroadcast)
Rudyard William Lynch is the host of WhatifAlHist, a popular history channel on YouTube. He joins to discuss how the origins and circumstances of America's regions permanently imprinted on its culture...
3 Feb 2h 12min
I Time Traveled to Talk to Medieval Yokels about Economics
What did people in the Dark Ages think about economics? Why did poverty exist, and how do you alleviate it? To find out, I took my time machine to 1282 and 1314, to speak to barflies and a priest. Fr....
28 Jan 55min
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 Jan 48min
