24 episodes

Common Sense with Dan Carlin is an independent look at politics and current events from popular New Media personality Dan Carlin.

Carlin's self-described "Martian" viewpoints infuse each episode with a political alien's take on the world around us and the problems it faces. It's a smart, unique (and admittedly U.S.-centric) program that doesn't dumb down the information or analysis for the slowest person in the room.

Carlin's rapid-fire staccato voice has been compared to William Shatner after too many espressos. That, plus his penchant for making everyone in the audience mad at him eventually, makes for a witch's brew of a podcast that is not for everyone. But for those craving a deeper intellectual analysis, a less partisan approach and unpredictable outside-the-box revelations, Common Sense with Dan Carlin is a feast for the mind.

Common Sense with Dan Carlin Dan Carlin

- News
- 4.9 • 75 Ratings

- 1 MAR 2022
Gas Up the Cold War

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
- 31 AUG 2021
Betting on Long Shots

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
- 13 JAN 2021
Garbage In, Garbage Out

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 SEPT 2020
Steering Into the Iceberg

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.
- 1 hr 13 min
- 31 MAR 2020
A Recipe for Caesar

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.
- 1 hr 26 min
- 25 MAY 2018
For Whom the Bell Trolls

For Whom the Bell Trolls

You never know when you might get a little common sense unexpectedly out of nowhere.This is one of those times.
- 46 min

4.9 out of 5

75 Ratings

The best podcast ever

Dan (and Ben) the way you help me look at the world has changed my life. As a Scottish man living in Berlin, dan has kept me in touch with every alien point of view of our troubled times. Excellent counterpoints, exquisite insight. When the rubber meets the road, dan gives me the Macro and the Micro every single time. Thank you for opening up the conversation so I can contradict my own values and accept other points of view. Thank you Dan(and Ben if there is a Ben).

Best non partisan political commentator

I've been listening to Dan for the last four years or so. Thanks to him I've learned and understood a lot of what's going on inside the United States, that is hard or impossible to grasp for me not having grown up there. He gives deep cultural insight and offers 'pie in the sky' solution proposals. I really appreciate his non partisan and pragmatic approach to topics that in other parts of public media are discussed rather emotionally. That might be the German in me speaking ;). Really happy I found him back then and even happier he's still going strong. Cheers.