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LEAKED: Trump's Secret Strategy Briefing
Episode 479
NOTE: THIS IS FICTITIOUS. I am trying to "steelman" the Administration's policies, to try to retroactively make sense of various moves they have made…
4 months, 1 week ago
A Review of Kubrick's Largely Overlooked "Barry Lyndon"
Episode 478
Adam Haman returns for another installment in the artistic review series. This time he and Bob review Stanley Kubrick's 1975 period piece, "Barry Lyn…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Abigail Hall on the Dubious History of US Intervention in Latin America
Episode 477
Abigail Hall is an economist at the University of Tampa. She has co-authored several books detailing the dangers of aggressive US foreign policy. In …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Commentary on the Venezuela Commentary
Episode 476
Adam Haman returns for another crossover episode, this time to discuss the right-wing commentary on the capture of Nicolas Maduro (and his wife).
Ment…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
An Interdisciplinary Commentary on the Gospel Accounts of Jesus Christ: Installment 10, Being Born Again
Episode 475
Bob covers John 3: 1-12, where Jesus tells Nicodemus that he must be born again to see the kingdom of God.
Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of…
5 months ago
What Does It Mean for Elon Musk to be Worth $749 billion?
Episode 474
Responding to the reaction over Elon Musk's recent estimated net worth of some $749 billion, Bob analyzes the economics of financial markets in much …
5 months, 1 week ago
Elon Predicts No Work and No Money
Episode 473
Adam Haman returns to discuss an intriguing panel featuring Elon Musk and Nvidia's Jensen Huang as they announced a business deal with Saudi Arabia.
M…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Pontus Rendahl on His Failed Outreach to Heterodox Economists
Episode 472
Pontus Rendahl is a neoclassically trained economist who spent a decade at the University of Cambridge, which has a long tradition of hosting heterod…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Reaction to Eric Weinstein on Gauge Theory in Economics
Episode 471
Adam joins Bob in reviewing Bob's recent conversation with Eric Weinstein, on his work (with Pia Malaney) in applying gauge theory to economics. Bob …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Are There Theoretical Limits to AI
Episode 470
Adam Haman returns, this time to help Bob analyze clips from Adam's own show. Specifically, Adam had interviewed two authors (Jobst Landgrebe and Bar…
6 months ago