Aug 13, 2026
What is The Odyssey actually about beyond a clever guy trying to get home? Classicist Isabella Reinhardt joins to dig into the poem’s deeper themes of civilization, hospitality, identity, belonging, and what it means for a warrior to return from war.
Then we turn to adaptation itself, and the choices involved...
Aug 5, 2026
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 Director of Infrastructure Policy at the Institute for Progress, where he...
Jul 30, 2026
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 deserve their bad reputation, why expertise and institutions matter, where academia...
Jul 23, 2026
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 groupthink and the collapse of local news. We explore whether readers are...
Jul 15, 2026
Is Rumpsringa real? Are Amish people happier than you? Let’s visit Amish country! Heaton visits Muhlenberg County, Ohio, to investigate America’s unique subculture of pacifistic, techno-phobic Anabaptists.
We meet Marcus Yoder, the Executive Director of the Amish and Mennonite Heritage Center, and talk to him about...