Episodes

PREVIEW: What is Education For?

Nov 23 2020 • 11 MIN

Nathan, Pete and Sparky discuss the book Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice, and education more broadly. Should there be a curriculum? Should twelve-year-ol...

PREVIEW: Talia Lavin on white supremacy and antifascism

Nov 21 2020 • 2 MIN

Pete speaks to journalist Talia Lavin about her new book Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy. This is a preview of an episode available in full to our $5 Patreon sub...

#62: The Biden Symphony

Nov 17 2020 • 69 MIN

The team responds and reflects to the Biden win, ruminate on conservative octogenarians, and look forward to a vaccinated future. The panel this week is made up of associate editor Vanessa A. Bee,...

Mass Appeal: A Discussion of Catholicism

Nov 16 2020 • 5 MIN

As the US prepares for its second ever Catholic president, Rennix is joined by Current Affairs contributor Daniel Walden for an in-depth discussion on Catholicism: its liberatory side, its troublin...

PREVIEW: William F. Buckley

Nov 10 2020 • 6 MIN

Nathan and Oren discuss William B. Fu—sorry, William F. Buckley, the "most important conservative intellectual of the postwar era", and possessor of the second-most ridiculous mid-Atlantic accent i...

PREVIEW: Infrastructure Nerd Hour: PG&E and California Wildfires

Nov 9 2020 • 3 MIN

Infrastructure enthusiast Sparky Abraham is joined by Dr. Magnus Jamieson, an expert in electrical power systems, to discuss the fire which destroyed the town of Paradise, California in November 20...