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The Legalization of Sports Gambling in America (with Danny Funt)
Season 1 Episode 89
How did sports betting burst onto the scene so violently in the last half-decade? Danny Funt, author of Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of Ameri…
2 months ago
SCOTUS, Callais, and What's Next for Voting Rights and Other Civil Rights (with Madiba Dennie)
Season 1 Episode 88
What does the Callais decision mean for voting rights and other anti-discrimination protections in the United States? How is anybody supposed to defe…
2 months, 1 week ago
Bari Weiss Is Supposed to Do the News Now (with Radley Balko)
Season 1 Episode 87
Why has Bari Weiss, a liberal-presenting Trump sycophant, been handed the reins to CBS News, one of our most prestigious news organizations? What doe…
2 months, 1 week ago
The Two American Reconstructions: An Appraisal, Reflection (with Thomas Zimmer)
Season 1 Episode 86
What was the first American Reconstruction after the Civil War? Why are some historians suggesting we just left a second sort of Reconstruction Era? …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Eat Like a Politician? (with Bennett Rea of Cookin' with Congress)
Season 1 Episode 85
What was Andrew Jackson's favorite gelatin-based meal? Why did Hilary Clinton feel a deep and urgent need to tell everyone about her fantastic chocol…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Richard Dawkins Finds Love, Isolation as a Societal Norm, and Other AI News (with Hagen Blix)
Season 1 Episode 84
Is this chatbot sentient? Is AI my friend? Is isolation hackable? Trent and Caitlin discuss recent AI news, Sam Altman's troubles legal and otherwise…
3 months ago
To What Lengths Should Democrats Go to Save a Liberal Society? (with Jacob Levy)
Season 1 Episode 83
In a time when the ruling party seems to be totally fine with breaking every law, every rule, and every norm that was holding our country in the gene…
3 months, 1 week ago
Dystopian Prisons, Progressive Messaging, and the 2026 Midterms (with Whitney Curry Wimbish)
Season 1 Episode 82
Progressive messaging is so hot, the cynical opportunists are appropriating it for mass appeal. A combat surgeon returned from Gaza has found financi…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Understanding How Israeli Settlers Are Illegally Seizing New Regions of the West Bank (with Oren Ziv)
Season 1 Episode 81
Apartheid and incursions into Palestinian territory are accomplished by a specific set of tactics. Oren Ziv, an Israeli photojournalist, joins Trent …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Cancel Culture Panic: Understanding How an American Obsession Went Global (with Adrian Daub)
Season 1 Episode 80
You can't say anything these days! Especially not on a college campus, and especially not if you're a white man. For evidence, please enjoy this loos…
3 months, 3 weeks ago