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Old School Principles for the New Century: What if the Right isn't Wrong about Education?
What if the right isn’t wrong - or, at least, totally wrong, about education? That seems to be the conclusion of James Traub, a liberal educationalis…
9 months ago
Melting Ice & Vanishing Cultures: The Chilling Costs of the New Cold War in the Artic
Timing is everything. The versatile American journalist Kenneth Rosen was last on the show in early 2021 talking about troubled teens. Since then, Ro…
9 months, 1 week ago
Trump and 25th Amendment: Why Removal will NEVER happen
Will Trump be removed by the 25th Amendment? No, it’s never going to happen - not after Jan 6 or Venezuela or Greenland or any other mad foreign or d…
9 months, 1 week ago
Societies on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
The great John Maynard Keynes explained it a century ago. In his 1930 essay, "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren," Keynes predicted that th…
9 months, 1 week ago
The School of Misery: The Children of a Manufactured Miracle
Back in 2018, the New York Times reporters Katie Benner and Erica L. Green exposed the disturbing reality of the T.M. Landry college prep school in r…
9 months, 1 week ago
WTF Will Happen in 2026?
WTF will happen in 2026? Over the last week, we’ve been running a series of interviews about the promise and peril of the new year. And in this new w…
9 months, 1 week ago
Why Smart People Still Believe in God
If Darwin’s evolutionary theories couldn’t kill America’s faith in God, then what could? That’s the message in Daniel K. William’s new book, The Sear…
9 months, 1 week ago
The All-Collar Crisis: When White Collar Work Meets Blue-Collar Reality
Hold onto your collars. The AI-generated crisis of work is here, and the storm will concentrate on white-collar workers from the professional economy…
9 months, 1 week ago
Keen on America: Andrew Reflects on 2025 & 2026
Happy New Year everyone! As the final show of 2025 and first for 2026, we turned the tables and had me interviewed by the formidable David Masciotra.…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
The Istanbul Perspective: A Time for Monsters and Middle Powers
We live in transitional times. "The old is dead and the new cannot be born—this is the time of monsters," Antonio Gramsci famously wrote. But today, …
9 months, 2 weeks ago