What Does Nolan Owe The Odyssey?
What is The Odyssey actually about beyond a clever guy trying to get home? Classicist Isabella Reinhardt joins to dig into the poem's deeper themes of civilization, hospitality, identity, belonging, a...
13 Aug 1h 14min
Why Can't We Have Nice Trains?
It's not that America won't spend money on mass transit, it's that we piss it away when we do. Our transit system is a mess, with a lot of problems in spending, procurement, NIMBYism and good 'ol fash...
5 Aug 1h 7min
Richard Hanania on Populism Eating America
Should you trust experts—or trust yourself? Richard Hanania, author of Kakistocracy: Why Populism Ends in Disaster joins to discuss why populism has become one of the defining forces in modern politic...
30 Juli 1h 5min
Why Nobody Trusts the News: Isaac Saul
Why has trust in the news collapsed—and is it really all the media's fault? Tangle founder Isaac Saul joins for a candid conversation about the incentives driving modern journalism, from clickbait and...
23 Juli 1h 1min
I Ask an Amish Guy about Everything
Is Rumpsringa real? Are Amish people happier than you? Let's visit Amish country! Heaton visits Muhlenberg County, Ohio, to investigate America's unique subculture of pacifistic, techno-phobic Anabapt...
15 Juli 1h 44min
Revenge of the Non-Profits
Brian Dunning of the Skeptoid podcast returns to The Political Orphanage for a spirited pushback episode on the modern non-profit industry. In a previous conversation, we argued that sprawling tax-exe...
10 Juli 33min
George Washington's Anti-Daddy
Why did the United States become a stable republic while so many revolutions ended in dictatorship? The answer lies in two men pivitol to the Revolution: George Washington... and Oliver Cromwell. A ce...
3 Juli 1h 43min
How Harlots Saved America (Rebroadcast)
What if history isn't a string of great man biopics or a struggle between conservatives and progressives? What if it's a battle of disciplinarians against drunks and harlots? Thaddeus Russell comes on...
1 Juli 39min
