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All Episodes

Half the Answer — 88 episodes

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1

Bari Weiss Is Supposed to Do the News Now (with Radley Balko)

2

The Two American Reconstructions: An Appraisal, Reflection (with Thomas Zimmer)

3

Eat Like a Politician? (with Bennett Rea of Cookin' with Congress)

4

Richard Dawkins Finds Love, Isolation as a Societal Norm, and Other AI News (with Hagen Blix)

5

To What Lengths Should Democrats Go to Save a Liberal Society? (with Jacob Levy)

6

Dystopian Prisons, Progressive Messaging, and the 2026 Midterms (with Whitney Curry Wimbish)

7

Understanding How Israeli Settlers Are Illegally Seizing New Regions of the West Bank (with Oren Ziv)

8

The Cancel Culture Panic: Understanding How an American Obsession Went Global (with Adrian Daub)

9

Understanding Israel, Palestine, Iran, and Lebanon (with Y. L. Al-Sheikh)

10

Orban Out!: Understanding Viktor Orban, Peter Magyar and the Hungarian Election (with RoteRote)

11

"No Quarter, No Mercy": Understanding Pete Hegseth

12

Liam Ramos, Kid Prisons, and ICE Flights

13

What the Hell Is Happening in Texas?! (with Gwen Howerton)

14

Sharia Socialism in NYC, Or Just Smarter Governance? (with Ryan Cooper)

15

DOGE Dunces, Depositions, DC Cops and Scoop Ethics (with Marisa Kabas)

16

Holding ICE and Border Patrol Accountable (with Joshua Erlich)

17

Political Polarization Across the U.S.A. and Europe (with Aurelien Mondon)

18

Making America Sick Again: How MAGA is Hurting Healthcare & Science (with Walker Bragman)

19

America and Iran: Another Forever War? (with The Logical Leftist)

20

The WaPo Defenestration and ICE Flight Brutality (with Gillian Brockell)

21

What’s the Deal with Concentration Camps? (with Andrea Pitzer)

22

The SAVE America Act’s Assault on Voting Rights (with Hunter CG)

23

CBP and ICE Report: New Orleans, Minneapolis, Greg Bovino & Apple Pie (with Amanda Moore)

24

Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show, Warehouse Prisons & the El Paso Laser Fiasco (with Jonathan Katz)

25

Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself? (with Matt McManus)

26

SCOTUS, the Fourth Amendment, and the Resistance (with Chris Geidner)

27

ICE Flights and Accountability in Journalism (with Gillian Brockell)

28

The Year We Lost Everything: Appraising 2025 and Fighting Back in 2026 (with Evan Urquhart)

29

2025's Word of the Year (with Savi Namboodiripad and Daniel Midgley)

30

Understanding Stephen Miller (with Greg Sargent)

31

The U.S. in Venezuela: The International Community and the Donroe Doctrine (with Mark Copelovitch)

32

The U.S. in Venezuela: Why Is Corporate Media Being So Weird? (with Marisa Kabas)

33

The Imaginary "War on Science"—and the Real One (with Nathan Oseroff-Spicer)

34

What Do Republicans Know? (with Matthew Sheffield)

35

Touring America with Border Patrol and ICE (with Amanda Moore)

36

Sick in America: Is Everyone Else Lying to You? (with Jonathan Howard)

37

Modern Gangsters of Capitalism and the Imperial Boomerang

38

National Delirium: NatSec in Post-9/11 America, from Dubya to Donny

39

Leaving Children Behind: Education Policy from Bush to Trump

40

What's It Really Like at the Portland ICE Facility? Part Deux

41

Prison Reform, Mass Incarceration, and the History of ICE

42

The Tucker Carlson–Nick Fuentes Interview Episode

43

SCOTUS, the Originalism Trap, and the Civil Rights Act

44

What Does History Tell Us About the Second Trump Term?

45

What's It Really Like at the Portland ICE Facility?

46

MAHA and the Climate Deniers: Who Are These People?!

47

America and Iran: Past, Present and Future

48

Andy Ngo and the Portland Mythology

49

Palestine in Context: The New Israel-Palestine Deal

50

What Is Antifa, and How Do You Catch a Fascist?

51

Mass Shootings, MedBeds, Media Mistakes and Misconceptions

52

Education Wars

53

Charlie Kirk and the Roots of the Far Right

54

Chaotic Neutrality in the Democratic Party

55

Ezra Klein, Charlie Kirk, Free Speech, and Whitewashing in the Media

56

What Are Groypers?

57

The Language of Democrats and Republicans

58

The Health of American Democracy

59

A Second American Midnight?

60

The American Anti-Vaxx Movement: Past, Present, and Future

61

Are We Liberated Yet?

62

AI as a Political Project

63

Chasing Opinion Polls or Shaping Opinions?

64

Still Talking About Epstein

65

Civil Rights Under Trump

66

Far-Right Perspectives on Israel

67

Being Weird About Zohran

68

Racist Pseudoscience in Academia and Beyond

69

Rage Against the ICE Machine

70

Authoritarian Overreach in Texas Libraries

71

Execution in America

72

Everything Is Cuck

73

Palestine in Context

74

Showing Their Buts

75

Anti-DEI or Just Segregationist?

76

Science vs. Propaganda: Trans Women in Sports

77

Why Did the Secret Police Visit Clay Jackson?

78

Why We Fear AI

79

Liberty, Rationality, and Trans Rights

80

Language, Identity, and Anti-Woke Academic Slander

81

What Is Personalism?

82

What Is Nationalism?

83

What Is "Heroic Masculinity?"

84

The Rationalists and Islamophobia

85

Youths and Technology

86

At the Library

87

Campus Misinformation

88

The Questions