Common Sense with Dan Carlin

Dan Carlin

4,6 (21)
POLÍTICA

Loud, fast-talking and deceptively funny, this politically-independent "forward-thinking pragmatist" looks at the events shaping our world through a uniquely American lens. It's smarter than you think, and faster than you expect.

24/11/2025

Who's the Boss?

The President is outraged at multiple Democratic lawmakers for reminding members of the military of their constitutional oaths and responsibilities. Dan points out that individual agency among soldiers is a societal firewall protecting all of us.

40 min
23/03/2025

What's Good for the Goose

The U.S. political stage has long been primed for an American nightmare. Faction loyalists can argue over who'll end up pulling the constitutional trigger, but the metaphorical gun has been loaded for decades.

1h 31min
01/03/2022

Gas Up the Cold War

Vladimir Putin has instantaneously reignited the Cold War by savagely attacking Ukraine this week. In response to requests, Dan shares a few thoughts.

40 min
01/09/2021

Betting on Long Shots

After 20 years in Afghanistan the U.S. exits the country thus ending the longest war in American history. Are there any lessons to be learned?

55 min
14/01/2021

Garbage In, Garbage Out

In a show recorded before the recent House impeachment vote, Dan examines the damage caused by the iceberg we recently hit when Americans stormed the U.S. Capitol and tries to suggest how we might avoid hitting another one.

47 min
20/09/2020

Steering Into the Iceberg

To paraphrase John Lennon, So you say you want a civil war? With the U.S. facing one of the most consequential elections in its history, Dan has some thoughts about us all, our choices and the times in which we live.

1h 13min
01/04/2020

A Recipe for Caesar

Does a global pandemic help break the spell of our bitter partisan conflict, or does it just raise the stakes? In the first CS show in years Dan wrestles with the Zeitgeist.

1h 26min

7 episódios

Dan Carlin

Apresentação

4,6

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21 avaliações

A lifeline to sanity

23/11/2017

Allan Panda

In America as Dan, in Brazil as myself, or wherever else. Whether you agree with him or not, it is refreshing to see an articulated soul expressing the very anxieties that the world community have been feeling in these changing times. The Dan Carlin's version on Sanity is a good reason to believe that we can still rely on open discussion and logic. 6/5.
Leftwing Propaganda

08/10/2020

neil2k5

This podcast was once good, now it has become Democratic party propaganda and Trump's hysteria. Former fan of the podcast in Brazil.
Politics like you never heard before

09/03/2012

Fabio Ciccone

And it's not only if you are an American. Dan's analysis fit perfectly anywhere there ate political parties, conflicting interests and any sort of corruption. Mandatory if you want another view of what goes on in the US and in the world.
Lots of hype and hot air in a shiny package with Stars and Stripes

26/05/2017

Bruno.Rodrigo

I used to be a huge fan of Dan Carlin's, first for the Hardcore History podcast, then Common Sense. The show is rather well produced and Carlin is a competent communicator. Just not an honest one. The obsession with "both-sides-do-itism" tells a lot, but anyone paying attention can see how it really plays as "both-sides-do-it-but-Democrats-are-worse". The country is run by Donald Trump and 20 minutes into the episode the criticism is about Antifa calling Trump supporters names. Not a peep about Trump voters attacks on people of color or terrorist acts in defense of Confederate symbols. Dan even concedes that perhaps the solution for American divisiveness ought to be "ethnic enclaves", since we "hate each other so much". To Dan the biggest problem in the US is corruption, and somehow he not once mentions the sitting President: nothing about his ties to foreign countries, the lack of transparency in his personal finances or the policies advanced by the administration: somehow the problem is how once upon a time Obama had the power to start wars and now we're in a crisis. I cannot recommend the show for someone in search of informed and level headed discussion on American politics. For anyone who hates politics in need of pablum and facile talking points, this is the show for you: Dan has a great voice and talks a lot of nothing beautifully.

Loud, fast-talking and deceptively funny, this politically-independent "forward-thinking pragmatist" looks at the events shaping our world through a uniquely American lens. It's smarter than you think, and faster than you expect.