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The Political Orphanage

Feb 27, 2025

What is the government doing which is irritating, and what is irritating that the government can assist with?

Topics covered today include: paper straws, low-flow toilets, pennies, nickels, mail, and quitting gym membership.

Jeff Maurer, author of “I Might Be Wrong” on Substack joins to discuss.


Feb 19, 2025

Jonathan Rauch asserts that as the American Church has become increasingly concerned with the culture war and politics, it has become secularized and unappealing to its members, who are abandoning it. The result is a country increasingly spiritually adrift, churches distracted from their core missions, and a...


Feb 12, 2025

Who’s having sex, and how much of it are they having? Who’s getting married and who’s getting divorced? Does money, somehow, possibly, effect any of this? 

Cathy Reisenwitz of “Sex & The State” joins to discuss.


Feb 6, 2025

Trump erected, then delayed, tariffs on Canada and Mexico, but has levied tariffs on China–which is apt to escalate things shortly. What happens in a trade war and why are they bad? And what is happening now, specifically, in whatever’s going on with Canada? Heaton breaks down the macroeconomics, and James Thatcher...