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
The Friendship Recession and Cocktail Parties
Or... how to host a party if you have Asperger's. Nick Gray is an entrepreneur and an author living in Austin, Texas. I met him roller skating. He started and sold two successful companies: Flight Dis...
14 Jan 1h 15min
I Explain Venezuela Using Lottery Tickets
How did Venezuela become an economic basket case? Not socialism. Or capitalism. Venezuela is a textbook example of a petrostate in the thrall of the Paradox of Plenty, or "the Dutch Disease." Bonus:...
9 Jan 1h
Is Everyone Disabled Now? (WSPN)
College students are increasingly registering as disabled–particularly at high-end universities, which often entails longer test times and extensions on papers. Does the growing rate of accommodation ...
31 Dec 20251h 7min
