The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton, Richard Hanania, Seth David Radwell, Thaddeus Russell, Brian BrushwoodPolitics minus bile plus jokes. Avowed independent and comedian Andrew Heaton interviews authors and thought leaders about policy and big thinky stuff. A refuge from Red Team vs. Blue Team slapfights.
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Why's Spain Got a Thing in Africa, Anyway?
Ceuta, and the huge mass migration attempt
Last week thousands of people poured over the border from Morocco into a Spanish enclave in North Africa. Raising the question: What’s Spain doing in Africa?
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 fashioned idiocy.
Will Poff-Webster is the...
Aaron Brown on Shoddy Stats and Sloppy Experts
Aaron Brown is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and was head of financial market research at AQR Capital Management, capping a 40-year Wall Street career as a trader, portfolio manager, and risk manager at top global firms.
Aaron Brown is a B...
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 politics.
We discuss whether elites really...
Why Nobody Trusts the News
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 audience capture to ideological groupth...
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Host of The Political Orphanage, and funny guy in Reason TV videos. Legally funny.
Richard Hanania is the President of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology.
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Unregistered podcast. Unreported livestream. Unregistered Academy.
Toured as a magician. Made a TV show. Retreated to Youtube and podcasts. Check out "World's Greatest Con" because it's pretty good.
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