The Political Orphanage

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  • Politics minus bile plus jokes. Comedian and avowed independent Andrew Heaton interviews authors and thought leaders about policy and big thinky stuff.
    2020 Andrew Heaton
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Political Science Comedy & Humour
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Episodes
  • Paternalism as Class Warfare

    Paternalism as Class Warfare
    Oct 3 2024

    Jonathan Ainslie is a law lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, with a focus on Roman Law. He joins the show to discuss free speech rules in the United Kingdom, and the broader topic of what role the government ought to play in protecting you from yourself.

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Kevin Williamson on Political Anxiety, The Future, Eating Cats

    Kevin Williamson on Political Anxiety, The Future, Eating Cats
    Sep 27 2024

    Kevin Williamson is national correspondent at The Dispatch, and writer-in-residence at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He joins to give a thousand-foot view of what our political era will look like in retrospect.
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Fetishizing Jobs

    Fetishizing Jobs
    Sep 19 2024

    What if we’re focusing on jobs too much?

    Guy Standing is the author of “The Politics of Time: Gaining Control in the Age of Uncertainty.”

    He joins to discuss laborism, why GDP is a stupid economic indicator, and solutions to the economy’s most vexing problems.

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    1 hr and 30 mins

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