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
Falsely Convicted of Murder (Bonus Sample)
Jeffrey Deskovic spent sixteen years in prison, from ages 17 to 32. Wrongfully convicted of raping and murdering a teenager. After obtaining exoneration he became an attorney, and now heads The Jeffre...
14 Maj 19min
Fighting Crime Like an Economist
How can we make America safer and save money to boot? What approaches don't work and what can we steal from other countries? Jennifer Doleac is the executive vice president at Arnold Ventures in charg...
13 Maj 1h 3min
The Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Is it a charity or a tax loophole? That's what Steve Hodge, President Emeritus of the Tax Foundation, is concerned with. And if there are effectively large corporations, which get tax breaks due to su...
6 Maj 1h 8min
Hahaha! Warrant? What Warrant?!
Naomi Brockwell is the President and Founder of the Ludlow Institute, a non-profit dedicated to advancing freedom through technology. She is a privacy advocate and expert, who has come on to scare us ...
29 Apr 1h 5min
