Principles Are Like Pants

B.T. Clark

A funny, thoughtful look at people, parenting, culture, politics, technology, loss and the everyday absurdities of modern life — from a journalist with 20+ years of experience making sense of the chaos. Life is absurd. People are complicated. But principles still matter. Principles Are Like Pants is a podcast about looking at the world with curiosity, humor and enough conviction to know what you stand for — without losing your ability to laugh at yourself or care about the people around you.

Episodes

  1. 2d ago

    Flock Cameras, Privacy, and the Bridge You Drove Off Anyway

    Flock cameras can help police find stolen cars and solve crimes. They can also create a remarkably detailed record of where ordinary people go. B.T. Clark looks at the tradeoff between safety and privacy, what happens when surveillance tools are misused, and why the boring local government story in the news you skipped six months ago may have been the warning you were looking for.

  2. 3d ago

    Keep your pants on

    Before there was a book, a podcast or an alarming amount of branding involving pants, there was one column about integrity. In this episode, B.T. Clark goes back to the piece that started it all — and asks when doing the right thing became negotiable. Along the way: drunk driving, school-zone speed cameras, prison guards running what amounts to inmate DoorDash, and one simple rule for life: Principles are like pants. You ought to have some.

  3. 4d ago

    September 11: What Did We Do With the 25 Years They Didn’t Get?

    Twenty-five years after September 11, B.T. Clark looks at the time the victims never got — and what the rest of us have done with ours. Drawing on the deaths of his mother and his stillborn daughter, Eliza, Clark reflects on grief, ordinary days, political outrage, wasted time, and the uncomfortable question of whether we’re treating the years we’ve been given like the gift they are.

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A funny, thoughtful look at people, parenting, culture, politics, technology, loss and the everyday absurdities of modern life — from a journalist with 20+ years of experience making sense of the chaos. Life is absurd. People are complicated. But principles still matter. Principles Are Like Pants is a podcast about looking at the world with curiosity, humor and enough conviction to know what you stand for — without losing your ability to laugh at yourself or care about the people around you.

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