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Episode 2527: Mark Skousen on why Benjamin Franklin is the Greatest American
As a direct descendant of Benjamin Franklin, the Chapman University economist Mark Skousen might be a bit biased. That said, Skousen makes an enterta…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2526: Keach Hagey on why OpenAI is the parable of our hallucinatory times
Much has been made of the hallucinatory qualities of OpenAI’s ChatGPT product. But as the Wall Street Journal’s resident authority on OpenAI, Keach H…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2525: Jocelyn Benson offers an morally purposeful alternative to Trumpism
What is the ideological alternative to Trumpism? In The Purposeful Warrior, Michigan’s Democratic candidate for Governor, Jocelyn Benson, offers “a r…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2524: Martin Wolf on whether Trump's tariffs are as dumb as they seem
There are few more respected economic analysts in the world than the Financial Times Chief Economic Commentator Martin Wolf. Yesterday, we ran a conv…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2522: Edmund Fawcett on Trump as a Third Way between Liberalism and Conservatism
I’ve been in London this week talking to America watchers about the current situation in the United States. First up is Edmund Fawcett, the longtime …
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2521: Michael Stein on the Real Lives of the American Working Class
What’s it like to have to work physically hard to make a living in America today? In A Living, the writer and physician Michael Stein shares conversa…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2520: Larry Aldrich on what's Right with America
Does the United States of America still have anything going for it? According to the Arizona based Larry Aldrich, co-author of the upcoming What’s Ri…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2519: Is Criticism of Israel, by definition, Anti-Semitic?
Is any criticism of Israel, by definition, anti-semitic? Not according to Uri Kaufman who, in his new book American Intifada, examines what he calls …
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2518: 100 Days or 100 Years?
In today’s discussion with David Masciotra about the first hundred days of Trump 2.0 I made the (Freudian) error of referring to it as a “hundred yea…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2517: Soli Ozel on the Light at the End of the Authoritarian Tunnel
Few analysts are more familiar with the politics of both contemporary Turkey and the United States than my old friend , the distinguished Turkish pol…
1 year, 5 months ago