(Preview) Vampire Bats Thwart Henry Ford
Henry Ford revolutionized manufacturing, built the modern automobile industry, and amassed one of the greatest fortunes in American history. Then he decided to conquer the Amazon. In this installment ...
18 Juni 8min
The Dark Side of Corporate Utopia: Pullman vs. Hershey
George Pullman built his employees a sparkling company town with clean homes, parks, libraries, luxury trains, and some of the best living conditions in the country—but demanded obedience in return. W...
17 Juni 1h 4min
(Preview) The Socialist Who Bought a Town
Robert Owen was a factory owner, a social reformer, the father of British socialism… and possibly the nicest company-town tyrant in history. Long before Karl Marx called for revolution, Owen tried to...
11 Juni 7min
The Emperor of Epcot: Walt Disney and Company Towns
What if your landlord was also your boss, mayor, bartender, and moral hall monitor? This week, Andrew Heaton talks with Brian Brushwood about the strange history of company towns—from industrial utopi...
10 Juni 1h 8min
Privacy Through a Cop's Eyes
Mike is a twenty-year police officer and current sergeant supervising a squad of violent crime detectives. After Andrew's recent conversation with Naomi Brockwell about surveillance, encryption, and t...
3 Juni 51min
The Old Political Order Is Dying: Stephen Davies on the Great Realignment
"Leftwing" and "Rightwing" don't mean the same thing anymore–the battle lines are redrawing. The twentieth century was about economics: low taxes or big government. The twenty-first century will be a ...
27 Maj 1h 21min
The Great Baby Shortage
For decades, intellectuals warned that overpopulation would trigger famine, ecological collapse, and mass death. Instead, humanity may now face the opposite problem. In this episode of The Political O...
20 Maj 1h 6min
