Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIs Masculinity A Prison? - Mike on Open to Debate
Listen to the full debate on Open to Debate’s podcast channel or watch it on YouTube: https://bit.ly/MikePesca
Men are falling behind in our society,…1 year, 1 month ago
Andrew J. Taylor: “Blue-Collar Voters Don’t Want Blue-Collar Politicians”
We talk with North Carolina State political scientist Andrew J. Taylor about his new book, A Tolerance for Inequality: American Public Opinion and Ec…
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Justin Driver: “The Fall of Affirmative Action”
Yale Law’s Justin Driver argues that SFFA v. Harvard/UNC broke with precedent and embraced a faux “colorblindness,” spotlighting the Court’s creative…
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Laura Spinney on the Language That Conquered the World
Laura Spinney joins to discuss her new book Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, tracing the unlikely rise of Indo-European and why most of t…
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Sadie Dingfelder on Mosquito Magnets and Who Tastes Best to Bugs
President Trump mangles acetaminophen and issues a sweeping “don’t take Tylenol” decree. Are some people truly more attractive to mosquitoes than oth…
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Andrew Fox on “Slam Frank”: Make Something Dangerous
The writer-composer behind the viral Slam Frank (an Anne Frank musical staged as if by the most social-justice-forward regional theater) explains why…
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JD Vance, Jimmy Kimmel, and America’s Radical Underground
It’s the Saturday show. One from the week, one from the vault. First, a look at JD Vance on the mic with Charlie Kirk and the culture wars of today. …
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Brendan Nyhan: Measuring Political Violence Without Panic
Dartmouth's Brendan Nyhan explains why headline-grabbing polls inflate support for "partisan violence" and how careful survey design finds under 10% …
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Not Even Mad: Michael A. Cohen and Jamie Kirchick
Michael A. Cohen and Jamie Kirchick discuss the Charlie Kirk assassination and the immediate retreat to priors — who’s weaponizing grief, what counts…
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Christian Duguay Brings the Valley Heat
Christian Duguay, creator of Valley Heat, breaks down how Doug Duguay, his in-show alter ego, works within a 51% fictional universe. Tight sound desi…
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