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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.
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Batya Ungar-Sargan on the Working Class
What are the insecurities of the Working Class, and what policies hurt or exploit them? Batya Ungar-Sargon is an editor at Newsweek and the author of Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women.
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Batya’s handle: @bungarsargon
Heaton & Batya on Heaton’s TV show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBh3sLlgRx4
Batya on The Political Orphanage: “Woke Hysteria is Actually Class Warfare”
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/woke-hysteria-is-actually-class-warfare/id1439837349?i=1000557442141
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The Difference Between Psychopaths and Sociopaths
Daniel J. Fox, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in Texas, international speaker, and multiple-award winning author. He has been specializing in the treatment and assessment of individuals with personality disorders for over 20 years in the state and federal prison system, universities, and in private practice.
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How Nations Escape Poverty
Dr. Rainer Zitelmann is the author of "How Nations Escape Poverty: Vietnam, Poland, and the Origins of Prosperity." He joins to discuss the efficacy of international development aid, and what we can learn from the economic growth of Asia vs. that of Africa.
Book at: www.mightyheaton.com/featured
Dr. Zitelmann on Nazi Economics: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-nazis-thought-about-economics/id1439837349?i=1000577197764
Dr. Zitelmann on his book “In Defense of Capitalism”
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/capitalism-remains-undefeated
Film: “Poland: From Socialism to Prosperity”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBIhsZ9GNHc&t=118s
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Cicero and the Founding Fathers
Jeffrey Rosen is a legal scholar and the President of the National Constitution Center. He’s the author “the Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America.”
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College Campuses Are So Very Very Passionate (WSPN)
Protests over Israel and Hamas have become so heated at Columbia that it’s canceled in-person classes the rest of the semester.
Anti-Israel protests are becoming not just a flashpoint in America’s culture war, but within Blue Team itself.
What’s happening?
The World’s Smartest Podcast Network assembles to discuss: Andrew Heaton, Dr. Andrea Jones-Rooy, and Michael Ira Kaplan.
We’re Not Wrong Live Show: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/were-not-wrong-live-in-washington-dc-tickets-882962824577?aff=erelexpmlt
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Understanding Immigration Through Circus Folk
James Judkins started out as a circus worker, eating swords and fire, then working up to ringleader and manager. As a talent scout operating in other countries, he became professionally involved in sorting visas foreign countries, then eventually transitioned to a full-time visa agency. He joins the show to discuss 1) what it’s like working at the circus, and 2) how temp visas work for seasonal workers, and how they could work better.