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The Political Orphanage

Aug 28, 2025

Is Sweden a socialist paradise? What do they do right and what have they screwed up on? Most importantly, what can Americans steal, replicate, and improve upon?

To find out, I abducted the handsome and urbane intellectual Johan Norberg.

Also I visit the ABBA Museum. 


Aug 20, 2025

Finland routinely winds up at the top of global happiness surveys. Why?

In this episode, I flew to Helsinki to wander around and chat up locals. Trying to figure out why:

  • Their social trust is so teeteringly high

  • How their social safety nets work

  • How this combines to result in their contentedness.

So that we can...


Aug 13, 2025

It turns out, young voters (under fifty) are openly hostile to political parties, and are most likely to flip from election to election. This means the game is about to change as Millennials displace Baby Boomers as the largest voting bloc. So what happens?

Adam Brandon is a senior advisor at The Independent Center, and...


Aug 6, 2025

Greg Lukianoff is the President of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and along with Nadine Strossen, is the author of "The War on Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech--And Why They Fail."