The Political Orphanage World's Smartest Podcast Network
-
- 新聞
Politics minus bile plus jokes. Comedian and avowed independent Andrew Heaton interviews authors and thought leaders about policy and big thinky stuff.
-
The War On Prices
Ryan Bourne is the former head of public policy at the Institute of Economic Affairs in the United Kingdom, an economist at the Cato Institute, and editor and contributing author of the new book The War on Prices.
Book at: mightyheaton.com/featured -
RFK, Jr. in Terms of Vaccines, Peace, Inflation & Spoilers
Is Robert Kennedy, Jr. a nutbag or a truth-telling disruptor? Can he actually win the presidency, or just spoil it? In this episode we tackle RFK.
Part 1: Heaton’s assessment of his politics, positives, and his position on vaccines.
Part 2: David Drucker of The Dispatch joins to discuss his candidacy, campaign, impact, and spoilage. -
The Economics of Midlife Crises
Jonathan Rauch is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a contributing writer at The Atlantic, and the author of the book "The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After Age Fifty." He joins to discuss the reality, economics, and neurology of midlife crises.
Find his book at www.mightyheaton.com/featured
-
Presenting LPS: America's Most Colorful Quack
John Romulus Brinkley became wealthy, famous, and powerful as one of America's most colorful, ludicrous quacks. He made his fortune by "curing" male impotence by sewing goat testicles into clients. As well as becoming a radio tycoon, politician, and more.
Check out more on the podcast Losers, Pretenders & Scoundrels -
Trump Conviction: Kangaroo Court or Al Capone?
Last week a New York court found former president Donald Trump guilty on thirty-four felony counts. Is this rule of law in action, or a corrupt judiciary undermining the law?
Paul Townsend and Anna Gorisch join to sort things out. -
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.
BOOK AT: www.mightyheaton.com/featured
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