Podcast Episodes

Episode 289: Woke-ism and Movies

Season 1 Episode 289

Today’s woke-ism evolved from political correctness of the 1990s. While people have embraced many lessons about inclusion and empathy from the era of political correctness, people appear to be reject…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Episode 288: What's a Recession?

Season 1 Episode 288

Maybe we’re in a recession, but maybe we’re not. This week, we talk about what a recession is and what it means, practically, for people.

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Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Episode 287: Secession: Good for me but not for thee?

Season 1 Episode 287

The Founders gave strong philosophical arguments for why secession from Great Britain was right and proper. Yet, when the Confederacy tried to secede from the Union, philosophical arguments against s…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Episode 286: Balance in Discussing Guns

Season 1 Episode 286

Part of the reason we make little progress on this topic of guns in this country is that the pro- and anti-gun camps talk past each other. This is fueled by a media that tends to show only one side o…

Published on 3 years, 4 months ago

Episode 285: What’s News in the Economy?

Season 1 Episode 285

Oddly, there’s not a lot in the news this week. Given what we’ve all been through the past couple of years, that’s likely a good thing. This week, we sit back and take a casual look at inflation, eco…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Episode 284: Phasing Out Social Security

Season 1 Episode 284

Social Security has become a trillion dollar weight dragging down our economics and politics. On the one hand, according to the Social Security administration itself, the program will be insolvent wi…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Episode 283: Americans Don’t Trust the Media

Season 1 Episode 283

Recently, we talked about polls showing a serious erosion of trust in the branches of government. This week, we focus on the media. It turns out that Americans trust the media about as much as they t…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Episode 282: What Happened to Health Care

Season 1 Episode 282

No matter what we do to tweak our healthcare system, we seem to end up with the same problems decade after decade. Proponents of socialized medicine say that healthcare is simply too complex of a pro…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Episode 281: Declared Independence

Season 1 Episode 281

Historian Rob McDonald joins us on this Fourth of July week to talk about the events leading up to the founding, and his observation that the Founders thought less that they were declaring independen…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

The End of the Experiment in Unlimited Government

Season 1 Episode 280

For one-hundred years, the United States has been conducting an experiment in unlimited government wherein politicians spend far beyond the government’s means, kicking the fiscal can down the road fo…

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago