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The Case for Deliberation - 376
Episode 387
The dumbest people in politics are always going on about how we need more "debate" between various factions. But Stanford political scientist James F…
3 months ago
What Zohran Can Learn from the Sewer Socialists - 375 EXCERPT
Episode 386
Today we've got Rutgers labor historian Eric Blanc back on to discuss his recent article on the sewer socialists of Milwaukee. Back in the early 20th…
3 months, 1 week ago
Why the Thirty Years’ War Matters - 374
Episode 385
Today we have Dr. Lucian Staiano-Daniels on to talk about his book The War People: A Social History of Common Soldiers during the Era of the Thirty Y…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Summers, Epstein, and Economics
Episode 384
Today we have economics professor Marshall Steinbaum on to talk about the potential fall of Larry Summers due to his association with Jeffrey Epstein…
4 months ago
The 2025 Blue Wave - 372
Episode 383
Zohran Mamdani won in New York City, and so did Democrats in New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and even Mississippi. What happened and why? We dig …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Bigoted Anti-Zohran Frenzy - 371 PREVIEW
Episode 382
Today we are discussing the home stretch of the New York City mayoral race, Andrew Cuomo's decent into outright gutter racism and Islamophobia, the o…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Life After Cars - 370
Episode 381
Is it possible to reform America's blighted hellscape of car-dependent suburban sprawl, big box stores, strip malls, and stroads into something more …
5 months ago
The American Farm Crisis - 369 EXCERPT
Episode 380
Today Ryan has Sarah Taber, a small farmer and proprietor of the Farm to Taber YouTube channel, on to talk about just what is going on with American …
5 months ago
Better Than Ezra - 368
Episode 379
Now that the dust has started to settled around the whole Charlie Kirk thing, we've brought on Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, associate professor of philosophy a…
5 months, 1 week ago
Nordic Socialism - 367 EXCERPT
Episode 378
Today we have Danish MP Pelle Dragsted on to talk about his book Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy. We discuss what is distincti…
5 months, 2 weeks ago