The Political Orphanage

What's the optimum size of a country? As countries get bigger, does the nature of governance necessarily change? In this episode, we explore scaling—how an increasingly large nation-state adapts, ...

1 Feb 20231h 30min

Stanford's Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative includes everything from the words "brave" to "crazy." The World's Smartest Podcast Network assembles to read the list and mercilessly laugh at it...

25 Jan 20231h 16min

CROSSOVER EPISODE from Alienating the Audience When does science fiction get "too political"? What separates a film with a strong point of view from stale publum or Woke pulpitry? Josh Jennings joins ...

23 Jan 20231h 17min

America has one educational path: go get a university degree! If you stray from it, you're in trouble. Could shifting the education system towards apprenticeships be a more effective way to help prepa...

18 Jan 202347min

A new study shows that "affective polarization" is on the upswing: negative feelings about enemy parties is on the increase, even if policy positions and ideology are not. What's the main drive behind...

11 Jan 20231h 22min

Generative AI like ChatGPT and Dall-E 2 are poised to change… everything. Tom Merritt of the Daily Tech News Show and Darren Kitchen of Hak5 join to discuss its ramification, and how automation will...

4 Jan 20231h 15min

Joel Kotkin worries that we're careening into a new bout of feudalism.   He sees a resurgence of intellectual dogmatism, coupled with inequality and lack of mobility, pushing civilization back into a ...

28 Dec 202252min

It's the fifth annual comedy Christmas special! All underwritten by Snuffy's (Off Route 44). This year's Christmas special includes: Inappropriate curse words; World War I; discussions about bats;...

23 Dec 20221h 17min