Politics 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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A.I. Slop Comes for James Talarico
Look, if you’re going to use A.I. slop to attack a candidate, at least make it funny! You can put politicians on spaceships, toss in pet monkeys, etc. Be imaginative!
Hard to express, then, just how disappointed I was in the recent AI slo...
The Socialist Who Bought a Town: Robert Owen
From Company Town to Hippy Utopia
Robert Owen was a factory owner, a social reformer, the father of British socialism… and possibly the nicest company-town tyrant in history.
The Emperor of Epcot
What if your landlord was also your boss, mayor, bartender, and moral hall monitor?
This week, Andrew Heaton talks with Brian Brushwood about the strange history of company towns—from industrial utopias to corporate feudalism—and the thin...
Certificate of Need Laws are Very Stupid
My latest from Reason. Including a cameo from Wallace!
Certificate of Need Laws are a weird holdover from the 1960s where, in order to open (or expand!) a hospital, you have to go to the government... to prove there’s a need for it. As in,...
Sergeant Mike on Afroman, Quotas, Bad Police, and Pensions
Sergeant Mike sticks around for an extra bonus episode, to talk about Afroman, why police officers approach crime differently than economics, what happens when bad cops get censured, whether rural police or urban police are more prone to co...
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Host of The Political Orphanage, and funny guy in Reason TV videos. Legally funny.
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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