All Episodes
What Would Karl Marx Do? — 100 episodes
Flock Cameras (thread 18), Episode 5: Don't Read My Mail: How the Post Office Built Privacy in America
Flock Cameras (thread 18), Episode 4: Madison vs. the Flock: License-Plate Cameras and the Fourth Amendment
Historic Supreme Courts--Citizens United (thread 20), Episode 5: When Corporations Found a Voice: The Warren Court and the Road to Citizens United
Historic Supreme Courts--Citizens United (thread 20), Episode 4: When Unions Spoke: The 1948 Clash Over Money, Speech, and Democracy
Historic Supreme Courts--Citizens United (thread 20), Episode 3: How Corporations Discovered the First Amendment
Historic Supreme Courts--Citizens United (thread 20), Episode 2: Citizens United in 1907, and How the Fuller Court Might Have Ruled
Historic Supreme Courts--Citizens United (thread 20), Episode 1: Citizens United, 1886, and the Waite Court on Gilded Age Corporations
Radicals! (thread 19): Episode 2: The Landowner's Paradox: Henry George and the Single Tax
Radicals! (thread 19): Episode 1: Thomas Skidmore and America's First Property Revolution
WWKMD?, Episode 24: Marx Meets the Cloud: The Loud, Physical Side of AI
WWKMD?, Episode 23: When AI Steals the Desk Job: What Would Marx Say?
Flock Cameras (thread 18), Episode 3: When Paper Became a Database: The John Entick Case That Shaped Privacy
Flock Cameras (thread 18), Episode 2: When the Crown Went Fishing: John Wilkes and the Danger of General Warrants
Flock Cameras (thread 18), Episode 1: Writs of Assistance 2.0: Why Roadside Cameras Threaten a Founding Principle
The National Debt (thread 17), Episode 4: When Tea Cost an Empire: Burke’s Warning Before Revolution
The National Debt (thread 17), Episode 3: When Debt Became a Crime: Grenville and the Stamp Act
The National Debt (thread 17), Episode 2: When Britain Bought an Empire: Pitt, Debt, and the Seven Years' War
The National Debt (thread 17), Episode 1: How William III and a Pint of Beer Built Modern National Debt
Iran (thread 10), Episode 19: Mission Accomplished? How Bush's Wars Became Two Long Quagmires
Iran (thread 10), Episode 18: When Good Intentions Arm the Enemy: Ronald Reagan and the Iran–Contra Lesson
Immigration (thread 12), Episode 6: Lyman Beecher vs. the Pope: Panic in the 1830s West
Immigration (thread 12): Episode 5: John Jay and The Myth of One American People
Immigration (thread 12), Episode 4: When Ben Franklin Panicked: The First American Immigration Scare
Iran (thread 10), Episode 17: Nixon's Paradox: Escalate to De‑Escalate
Iran (thread 10), Episode 16: When Escalation Becomes a Trap: LBJ’s Vietnam Lesson for Iran
Iran (thread 10), Episode 15: When the White House Burned: Madison’s Warning for Trump and Iran
WWKMD?, Episode 22: When the GOP Quotes Marx: J.D. Vance's Strange Wake-Up Call
Lindsay Clancy (thread 15), Episode 6: When Justice Faces Mercy: Clarence Darrow on the Lindsay Clancy Case
Lindsay Clancy (thread 15), Episode 5: When Madness Keeps Its Wits: Isaac Ray and the Clancy Case
Lindsay Clancy (thread 15), Episode 4: No Camera Inside the Mind: The Lindsay Clancy Trial’s Impossible Question
The Reflecting Pool (thread 16), Episode 5: Nixon's Warning: Don't Turn a Peeling Pool into Watergate
The Reflecting Pool (thread 16), Episode 4: Spiro Agnew Would Love This: The Canoeist Conspiracy
The Reflecting Pool (thread 16), Episode 3: The Buck Stops Here: Truman vs. the Reflecting Pool Fiasco
The Reflecting Pool (thread 16), Episode 2: Silent Cal and the Blue Pool: A Lesson in Restraint
The Reflecting Pool (thread 16), Episode 1: Abe vs. the Blue Pond: A Presidential Reflection
Lindsay Clancy (thread 15), Episode 3: Dorothy Dix’s Warning: Who Did We Fail Before the Tragedy?
Lindsay Clancy (thread 15), Episode 2: When Knowing Isn't Enough: The McNaughton Rule vs. Lindsay Clancy
Lindsay Clancy (thread 15), Episode 1: Diseased Mind or Criminal Choice? Benjamin Rush on the Lindsay Clancy Dilemma
Trump Tariffs (thread 3), Episode 21: Who Really Made That Money? Henry George on Tariff Refunds
Trump Tariffs (thread 3), Episode 20: T.R.'s Tough Love: When Big Business Forgets the People
Trump Tariffs (thread 3), Episode 19: Andrew Jackson vs. the Tariff Refunds: Who's Really Getting the Money?
Trump Tariffs (thread 3), Episode 18: What Adam Smith Really Meant About Tariffs and Power
WWKMD Reborn: Welcome to American Seances
WWKMD?, Episode 21: Back to the Family Home: Why Grown Adults Are Moving in With Mom and Dad
WWKMD?, Episode 20: Why Karl Marx Wouldn't Be Surprised by Big Oil's Profits
Happy 250th! (thread 13), Episode 13: Pat Buchanan: Did America Change Beyond Recognition?
Happy 250th! (thread 13), Episode 12: Phyllis Schlafly: The Woman Who Tried to Stop America
Happy 250th! (thread 13), Episode 11: When Science Wore a Tie: The Madison Grant Story
Happy 250th! (thread 13), Episode 10: Pitchfork Politics: Ben Tillman and the Battle Over the Vote
Happy 250th! (thread 13), Episode 9: When 'Freedom' Looked Like Chaos: The Strange Case of George Fitzhugh
Happy 250th! (thread 13), Episode 8: Jane Addams, on Bigger Houses and Forgetting Neighbors
Happy 250th! (thread 13), Episode 7: You Shall Not Crucify Mankind on a Cross of Credit Cards!
Happy 250th! (thread 13), Episode 6: If Eugene Debs Walked into Tech HQs: Who Owns the Future?
Happy 250th! (thread 13), Episode 5: What Would John C. Calhoun Say About America at 250?
Lindsey Graham (thread 14), Episode 3: From Strom to Graham: The Bizarre Journey of a Senate Seat
Lindsey Graham (thread 14), Episode 2: TR vs. Graham: A Bully of a Farewell
Lindsey Graham (thread 14), Episode 1: Lindsey Graham: A South Carolina Story of Power and Paradox, from John C Calhoun
Happy 250th! (thread 13), Episode 4: Frederick Douglass at 250: Was America Worth Saving?
Happy 250th! (thread 13), Episode 3: Lincoln at the 250th: Stunned, Moved, Amazed
Happy 250th! (thread 13), Episode 2: Ben Franklin in 2026: Kites, Smartphones, and Fireworks
Happy 250th! (thread 13), Episode 1: Hamilton's 250th Victory Lap: "I Told You So"
Immigration (thread 12), Episode 3: The Gompers Paradox: The Immigrant Who Fought Immigration
Immigration (thread 12), Episode 2: The Chinese Must Go: Dennis Kearney’s Ugly Slogan and a Nation’s Tangled Fear
Immigration (thread 12), Episode 1: The Man Who Feared the Future: Henry Cabot Lodge and Birthright Citizenship
Iran (thread 10), Episode 14: The Price of Every Promise: James Baker’s Rule for Diplomacy
Iran (thread 10), Episode 13: Kissinger's Playbook: How Uncertainty Became America's Silent Weapon
Iran (thread 10), Episode 12: When Deals Are Ledgers: J.P. Morgan on Diplomacy and Value
Iran (thread 10), Episode 11: What John Quincy Adams Would Say About the Iran Deal
Iran (thread 10), Episode 10: What Would Ben Franklin Do About the Iran Deal?
Mormons (thread 11), Episode 6: Mark Twain Roasts Mormonism — And Gets Surprised
Mormons (thread 11), Episode 5: Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Mormon Polygamy--Holding a Mirror to America
Mormons (thread 11), Episode 4: When a Senator Saw Mormons as 'Barbarism': Charles Sumner vs. Utah
Mormons (thread 11), Episode 3: When the Spanish Inquisition Met Mormonism: A 17th-Century Smackdown
Mormons (thread 11), Episode 2: If Joseph Smith Faced the Salem Courts: Angels, Evidence, and Endless Questions
Mormons (thread 11), Episode 1: When Cotton Mather Met Joseph Smith: Puritan Skeptic vs. New Revelation
WWKMD?, Episode 19: Marx vs. the Self-Checkout: Who’s Really Doing the Work?
WWKMD?, Episode 18: Karl Marx at Walmart — Part 1: The Shopping Cart Showdown
Tariffs (thread 3), Episode 17: From Buchanan to Trump: How a Forgotten Nationalist Foretold the Tariff Turn
Tariffs (thread 3), Episode 16: Ross Perot’s Charts: The Man Who Saw NAFTA’s Fallout Coming
Tariffs (thread 3), Episode 15: Reagan's Trade Paradox: Free-Market Saint, Surprise Protectionist
Tariffs (thread 3), Episode 14: Nixon’s Tariff Playbook: The Original Trade Populist
Tariffs (thread 3), Episode 13: Truman vs. Tariff Chaos: What He'd Say About Today's Trade Wars
Iran (thread 10), Episode 9: Goldwater’s Grit: How He’d Handle Modern Iran
Iran (thread 10), Episode 8: Dean Acheson: The Suit Who Built America’s Global Order
Iran (thread 10), Episode 7: Dulles on the Brink: How a Cold Warrior Would Handle Iran
Iran (thread 10), Episode 6: If Truman Saw Iran Today: Cold War Instincts in a Hot Region
Obamacare (thread 2), Episode 11: Fighting Bob vs. Big Health: La Follette on Obamacare
Obamacare (thread 2), Episode 10: Teddy vs. the Health Care Goliath: What TR Would Say About Obamacare
The White House Ballroom (thread 7), Episode 5: Huey Long and the People's Ballroom: How Populism Loves Spectacle
The White House Ballroom (thread 7), Episode 4: Teddy Roosevelt’s Big-Show Presidency: Why He’d Love a White House Ballroom
The White House Ballroom (thread 7), Episode 3: Why Chester A. Arthur Would Approve of a Gilded White House Ballroom
WWKMD?, Episode 17: Oil, Empires, and the Unstoppable Logic of Capital
Iran (Thread 10), Episode 5: When There's No Referee: Hobbes on the Iran Clash
Iran (Thread 10): Episode 4: “This Time It’s Different”? Erasmus Wouldn’t Buy It
Iran (Thread 10), Episode 3: Machiavelli in the Strait: Power, Fear, and the Politics of Oil
Iran (Thread 10), Episode 2: Aquinas on the Strait: Is the Iran Fight Truly Just?
Iran (Thread 10), Episode 1: Grotius in the Gulf: Rules, Rights, and the Strait of Hormuz
Historic Supreme Courts--14th Amendment, Episode 9: When 'Any Person' Wins: The Plyler v. Doe Breakthrough
Historic Supreme Courts--14th Amendment, Episode 8: When the Constitution Stops at the Shore: The Insular Cases Explained
Historic Supreme Courts--14th Amendment, Episode 7: Born Here, Belong Here: The Wong Kim Ark Case