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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...
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How the World Works Podcast with Guest George Weigel
Kevin D. Williamson is joined by author, political analyst, and social activist, George Weigel to discuss his job as an author of more than...
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Creating the Future with Jim Pethokoukis
This week we talk about income and tax migration, refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the problem with federal crop insurance, and the recent CEO Summit...
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Going into Labor with Sean Higgins
This week we talk about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s legal fate, rising economic might in India, terrible federal policy on sugar, and how the...
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Financial Regulation and ESG with Hester Peirce
This week we talk about commuting via bicycle, regulatory reform legislation from Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), the new book on capitalism by historian Rainer Zitelmann,...
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Threats to Economic Freedom, Then and Now with Iain Murray
This week we talk about recycled Legos, socially responsible pension funds, pessimistic views about politics, and a special immigration visa for microchip experts. Our interview...
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How the World Works Podcast with Guest Bryan Caplan
Kevin D. Williamson is joined by author, economist and professor of economics at George Mason University, Bryan Caplan to discuss what it's like working as...
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Unemployment That Works
This week we talk about banning plastic gift cards in California, the solution to Germany’s energy crisis, the political future for organized labor, and why...
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Supreme Court Preview with Ashley Baker
This week we talk about the long history of the Lewis Powell memo of 1971, innovation in textile recycling, how Tokyo has kept housing prices...
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Freedom and Conservatism with Avik Roy
This week we talk about the future of nuclear power, the possible end of remote work, and the complexities of regulating pork products across state...
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Defend Your Points and Miles with Bryan Bashur
This week we talk about where our doctors come from in the U.S., what current inflation numbers tell us about the health of our economy,...
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How the World Works Podcast with Guest Veronique De Rugy
Kevin D. Williamson sits down with Mercatus Center Senior Fellow Veronique De Rugy to discuss the work she does, jobs she's had, and policy ideas...
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The ESG Agenda with Jack McPherrin
This week we talk about job recruiters who lie to applicants, post-Covid reforms to the CDC, debunking socialist takes on Sweden, and the need for...
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Permitting Prosperity with Daren Bakst
This week we talk about labor union history, demands for a 4-day work week, YIMBY policy wins, and Reason’s new “Why We Can’t Have Nice...
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Federal Trade Commission Failures with Kimberlee Josephson
This week we talk about defending financial privacy, new polling on what Republican voters want, reactions to new employment data, and the declining popularity of...
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Government Rules Behind a Paywall with Patrick McLaughlin
This week we talk about banning incandescent light bulbs, mission creep at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, new nuclear capacity in Georgia, and a celebration...
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Reforming the States with Carrie Conko
This week we talk about the Federal Trade Commission’s takeover of AI policy, shareholder lawsuits against “woke” corporations, a burst of new business starts across...
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Ugh, Capitalism with Jeremiah Johnson
This week we talk about Democrat and Republican myths, corporate welfare in Ohio, scams in the carbon offset market, and how Gen Z workers are...
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School Choice for Everyone with Ed Tarnowski
This week we talk about trends in self-employment, how rent control leads to more evictions, empty corporate gestures on indigenous lands, and how Americans are...
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Teaching Capitalism with Allen Mendenhall
This week we talk about the cost of thriving in America, the incredible expanding CHIPS Act, occupational licensing reform in New Hampshire, and celebrate Adam...
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Importing Talent with Connor O’Brien
In episode 27, we talk about the income tax case going to the Supreme Court, the death of ESG, community meetings and housing permits, and...
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Online Trust with Taylor Barkley
In episode 26, we talk about a survey on work trends for finance bros, Delta’s questionable bid to become the first carbon neutral airline,...