Time Travel Bureaucracy / New Audio Book
My new book "Inappropriately Human: 21 Short Stories" is now available as an audio book! You can listen to it via Audible.com. To pique your interest, here is a funny story from it: "RE: Your Timeline...
24 Feb 202220min
Why Revolutions Ignite or Flop
Why do some activist movements change the world, when others make a big bang and then fizzle out? Gal Beckerman is the author of "The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas." You can...
23 Feb 202248min
PJ O'Rourke Once Got Me Laid
My hero just died. In this special episode, I talk about the beloved political satirist P. J. O'Rourke, and his impact on me personally. Then play a rerun of his final interview on this program, where...
17 Feb 202254min
Joe Rogan and the Authoritarians
Charles Cooke of National Review joins the show to discuss embattled podcast host Joe Rogan as the flashpoint between authoritarianism and free speech. And to elaborate on the difference between state...
16 Feb 202251min
Joe Biden's Identity Politics
Joe Biden has pledged to nominate a black woman to the forthcoming Supreme Court vacancy--should race and gender factor in at all? In politics, does ideology or identity weigh more heavily? Jeremiah J...
9 Feb 20221h 23min
Adventures in Psychedelic Drugs
What are the therapeutic benefits to psychedelics, like psilocybin mushrooms or LSD? What are their potential downsides? In this episode we talk to Sarah Rose Siskind of "Drug Test" comedy show, as we...
1 Feb 20221h 26min
The Best Tiny House Village in America
Alan Graham is the Founder of Community First Village, an innovative community that houses the homeless and integrates them into a vibrant community. It's a model that takes care of both the material ...
26 Jan 20221h 11min
Homelessness, and Our Stupid Solutions
What are the dumb ways we try but fail to solve homelessness, or even make it worse? In this episode we cover: * Economics * Housing Policy * Elizabethan History * Mental Health * Really s...
20 Jan 20221h 24min
