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Paying for Mass Transit with Marc Scribner
This week we cover California’s minimum wage for fast-food workers, overturning the FCC’s universal service fee, and pushing back on rude customers in Japan. Our...
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How the World Works Podcast with Joshua Bresnahan
July 31, 2024 - Kevin D. Williamson is joined by Joshua Bresnahan, an Airport Ramp Agent who's worked at various airports along the East Coast....
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Dead Malls and Retail Nostalgia with Sal Amadeo
This week we cover state-level regulatory reform, the opinions of Latino voters, Biden’s tax on stock buybacks, and another cool new podcast you should try....
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Inflation and Bidenomics with Kurt Couchman
This week we cover Capital One buying Discover, solutions for high housing prices, China’s soft-power investment strategy, and President Biden’s call for national rent control....
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The New Progress Movement with Ronald Bailey
This week we cover the end of Chevron deference at the Supreme Court, the economic impact of future Trump tariffs, the Federal Trade Commission’s effort...
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Taxocracy with Scott Hodge
This week we cover how the SEC is going to spam investors with a deluge of low-quality disclosures, the Supreme Court’s decision on social media...
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Protecting Taxpayers with Timothy Sandefur
This week we cover the SEC’s new climate rule, the recent Supreme Court decision on income taxes, and why the Social Security Administration has finally...
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How the World Works Podcast with Jill Erber
Kevin D. Williamson is joined by Jill Erber, a notable restaurateur who's based in Northern Virginia and renowned for her expertise in cheese. Kevin and...
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Up From Poverty with Josh Bandoch
This week we cover pork-barrel spending in Congress, reforming federal guidance documents, restaurants with minimum age requirements, and the most popular jobs for young workers....
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Enlightened Capitalism with Siri Terjesen
This week we cover regulatory burdens on small businesses, common-sense solutions to poverty, a legal challenge to the TikTok ban, and American attitudes on the...
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Economic Facts and Vibes with Joey Politano
This week we cover advances in dentistry, the slow pace of EV charger deployment, a victory for free speech at the Supreme Court, and China’s...
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Capitalism and the Historians with Phil Magness
This week we cover the prospect of Inflation Reduction Act 2.0, rising consumer confidence, the perils of stress bragging, and a new collection of essays...
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How the World Works Podcast with Nick Gillespie
Kevin D. Williamson is joined by Nick Gillespie, Author, and Editor at Large at Reason. The two discuss what motivated and inspired their professional paths....
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Giving for a Cause with Peter Lipsett
This week we cover attitudes toward social media companies, the guerilla war over ESG investing, YIMBY housing reforms in Austin, and new research on high-skilled...
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Liberty Movement Jobs with Claire Kittle Dixon
This week we cover the war on prices, the great un-wokening of corporate America, the attack on credit card points and miles, and why maternal...
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Technology and Politics with Corbin Barthold
This week we cover bringing your parents to a job interview, the case against a universal basic income, and why we shouldn’t use science fiction...
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Technology and Society with Will Rinehart
This week we cover nuclear radiation, luxury handbags, rent control, net neutrality, and malaria. Our interview this week is with Will Rinehart, senior fellow at...
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Frontier Economics with Kendall Cotton
This week we cover the diamond jubilee of the Philadelphia Society, the cost of government regulation in the UK, the birth of the Abundance Institute,...
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How the World Works Podcast with David Bahnsen
Kevin D. Williamson is joined by David Bahnsen, Author, Founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer at the Bahnsen Group. Kevin and David discuss...
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Heroes of Progress with Alexander Hammond
This week we cover venture capitalists fighting red tape, challenges to electric vehicle adoption, Americans sleeping on the job, a possible vaccine for chlamydia, and...
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Censorship By Proxy with Jenin Younes
This week we cover Gen Z job satisfaction, dumb biotech policy in the European Union, and figuring out how little the average American knows about...
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Extremely Online with Brad Polumbo
This week we cover how honeybees came back from colony collapse disorder, why you shouldn’t believe the government’s nutrition advice, and surprising new research on...
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Gig Work with Liya Palagashvili
This week we cover how to rebuild after the Baltimore bridge collapse, legal challenges to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s new climate disclosure rule, and...
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How the World Works Podcast with Kent Lassman
Kevin D. Williamson is joined by Kent Lassman, President of Competitive Enterprise Institute. Kevin and Kent discuss the Kent's life journey to becoming the...
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Paying for Organs with Pete Jaworski
This week we cover the future of AI and employment, why we shouldn’t trust Chinese economic statistics, and how the Biden administration is sticking its...
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Defending Election Integrity with Walter Olson
This week we cover the Securities and Exchange Commission’s controversial new rule on climate change, federal science policy and indigenous knowledge, and California’s curious Panera...
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Free Markets and the Common Good with Iain Murray
This week we cover fake environmentalism and the need to build, a look at policymaking inside the National People’s Congress in China, the new normal...
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Politically Homeless with John Tillman
This week we cover an environmental conference in Miami, allegedly underfunded government schools, Google’s AI diversity debacle, and new data on how Americans are using...
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Federal Tech with Deb Collier
This week we cover the future of environmental policy, rare earth minerals in Wyoming, and what we can learn from the merger of Capital One...
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How the World Works Podcast with Sally Satel
Kevin D. Williamson is joined by Sally Satel, American Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow of mental health policy, domestic drug policy, political trends in medicine, transplant...
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Federalism Wins with Patrick Gleason
This week we cover Biden’s attack on shrinkflation, barriers to workplace flexibility, and a motherlode of domestic lithium. Our interview this week is with Patrick...
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Understanding AI with Matthew Mittelsteadt
This week we cover Elon Musk’s controversial pay package, protecting children online, and the Biden administration’s slamming the breaks on new natural gas projects. Our...
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Moving the Rocks off the Lawn with Andrew Langer
This week we cover elite opinion versus the average American, the popularity of vocational training, why Millennials are suddenly investing more like old people, and...
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Sensory Pleasures and Public Health with Michelle Minton
This week we cover an environmental culture war, foreign investment in U.S. manufacturing, corporate diversity efforts, and the call to return to the office for...
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The Culture of Economic Freedom with Sam Gregg
This week we cover the old-fashioned roots of ESG investing, the blocked merger of JetBlue and Spirit Airlines, and the surprising truth about worker satisfaction...
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How the World Works Podcast with Guest Jonah Goldberg
Kevin D. Williamson is joined by Jonah Goldberg, current Editor-in-Chief at The Dispatch, Columnist at the Los Angeles Times, American Enterprise Fellow, and host...
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Against Crony Capitalism with Nick Sorrentino
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Protecting Your Property Rights with Betsy Sanz
This week we cover slow-moving infrastructure projects, the impact of the conservative boycott of Bud Light, good and bad news on nuclear power, and return-to-the-office...
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Avoiding a Central Bank Digital Currency with Nicholas Anthony
This week we cover the legislative record of House of Representatives in 2023, the proliferation of conferences about ESG investing, the sketchy status of the...
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(De-)Regulating Tech and AI with Adam Thierer
This week we cover social mobility in the 50 states, Elizabeth Warren’s revolving door with Wall Street, the latest power grab from the Food and...
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How the World Works Podcast with Guest Mark Mix
Kevin D. Williamson is joined by Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Committee and National Right to Work Foundation. Mark shares his...
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Making Congress Work with Kevin Kosar
This week we cover people who fetishize old homes, the big AI risk no one’s talking about, how environmentalist activists are losing the climate class...
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Centers of Progress with Chelsea Follett
This week we cover the housing abundance agenda, antitrust concerns about corporate climate alliances, the future of global nuclear power capacity, and the Supreme Court’s...
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The Future of Energy and Environmental Policy with Travis Fisher
This week we cover the political path toward abundance, the need for permitting reform beyond the National Environmental Policy Act, the Biden administration’s continuing assault...
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How the World Works Podcast with Guest Klon Kitchen
Kevin D. Williamson is joined by Klon Kitchen, Nonresident Senior Fellow at American Enterprise Institute. Klon's research areas include national security and defense technology, defense...
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Making College Pay with Preston Cooper
This week we cover Javier Milei’s election as president of Argentina, how much money it takes to be happy, Thanksgiving lessons about property rights, and...
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Getting out of Control with Neil Chilson
This week we cover the American Nuclear Society’s Winter 2023 conference, the opportunities and pitfalls of online side-hustles, and the complex task of measuring incomes...
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Personal Finance and YouTube with Spencer Johnson
This week we cover how states can reform higher education, ways that managers can make their employees happier at work, the plans consumers have for...
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The Trouble with Big-Government Conservatives with Andre Béliveau
This week we talk about which state has the least-bad business taxes, how many Americans really love America, the continuing trouble with ESG investing, and...
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Polling Capitalism with Karlyn Bowman
This week we talk about the surprisingly low demand for free transit, the demographics of higher education, a primer on electrical grids, and a new...