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What Do You Call A War That Isn't Called A War?
Episode 722
If bombs are dropping and troops are being sent overseas, does it matter what the president decides to call it?
Today's episode continues a conversat…
17 hours ago
Is Capitalism Fair and Just?
Episode 721
If you built something with your own hands and your own time, who should get to keep it — and does the answer to that question tell you everything yo…
2 days, 17 hours ago
What Is The Bystander Effect?
Episode 720
*Would you actually call for help if you saw someone in trouble — or would you quietly assume someone else already had it covered?*
Today's episode d…
1 week ago
What If Birthday Parties Were Centrally Planned?
Episode 719
You already know exactly what you'd want at your own birthday party — so what happens when a total stranger on the other side of the world tries to p…
1 week, 2 days ago
Why Group Projects Go Wrong — And What That Teaches Us About Running a Country
Episode 718
If your group project grade ever got wrecked by one teammate who did nothing, you already understand why entire economies collapse.
Group projects ra…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Who Was Madam C.J. Walker?
Episode 717
She was born in a Louisiana cotton field to parents who had been enslaved, orphaned by age seven, and married at fourteen to escape an abusive home —…
3 weeks ago
How The King's Search for Gun Powder Strengthened Property Rights
Episode 716
In 1606, King James's men were tearing up English homes with crowbars searching for a gunpowder ingredient — and the court ruling that finally reined…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
The Man Who Saved Thomas Jefferson's Life
Episode 715
In the dead of night, a 26-year-old Virginian heard hoofbeats on the road to Charlottesville and made a split-second choice that may have saved Thoma…
4 weeks ago
Why NYC's Socialist Mayor Can't Create More Housing
Episode 714
New York City just elected a democratic socialist mayor, and his plan to fix the housing crisis starts with getting rid of the very thing that builds…
4 weeks, 2 days ago
What Can Legos Teach Us about Innovation?
Episode 713
A struggling Danish carpenter lost his business in the Great Depression, watched his workshop burn to the ground twice, and still built one of the mo…
1 month ago