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Dan hosts What We Were, a society show with 37 episodes published.
Jacob Siegel is a writer and editor at Tablet and author of The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control . A U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, he is also a co-host of the Manifesto! pod
The first proposed amendment to the Constitution was not about speech, religion, or guns. It was about the size of the House of Representatives—and if it had passed, Congress today might have nearly 7,000 members, not 43
Can "Braver Angels" save America? Bill Doherty and I discuss the causes of America's political divide and how Braver Angels is working to bridge it. Bill Doherty is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Family Socia
Joseph Ellis is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Founding Brothers , about the collaboration of America's greatest political generation, which is the focus of this conversation. In his latest book The Great Contradic
Mustafa Akyol is a Turkish writer, journalist, and senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, where he explores the intersection of public policy, Islam, and modernity. He is the auth
Environmentalist and documentary filmmaker Jeff Gibbs joins us to discuss his film Planet of the Humans, which pulls back the curtain on the "green energy" movement to reveal a for-profit industry that has tricked us int
Justice Clint Bolick sits on the Arizona Supreme Court, originally appointed by Governor Doug Ducey in 2016. In this episode, Justice Bolick and I discuss the legal system, his experiences on the Court, and the state of
Happy Independence Day, American listeners! Professional sports in America has become a racket. Taking advantage of patriotic sentiment and our civic duty to be sports fans, corporations have seized the commanding height
Sports betting and marijuana have been broadly and rapidly legalized in much of the United States. What have been the consequences thus far and what does the future portend for America's growing population of gambling an
Zaid Jilani is an American journalist and author of the popular Substack The American Saga . Follow him on X: @ZaidJilani In this episode we discuss the state of journalism and the War in Gaza. I encourage everyone to pr
Jeff Shaara is the author of the American Civil War epics Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure . His father, the late Michael Shaara, is the author of The Killer Angels , a historical fiction novel about the Battl
Dr. Iain McGilchrist is the author of The Master and His Emissary and The Matter With Things . A psychiatrist by training, Dr. McGilchrist is a leading expert on the brain and hemispheric differences. He is, I believe, t
In his book The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World , Dr. Iain McGilchrist paints a picture of our brains and the world in crisis. This episode is meant to be a primer on "McGil
The Fentanyl Project 's Brock Bevell and I cruise the streets of Mesa, Arizona to talk with the growing number of fentanyl addicts who have been relegated to the streets. America is now losing 100,000 citizens in their p
We sit down with author and historian David O. Stewart about his book The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution . How did America get the Constitution it has? What timeless or transient issues informed th
Angel Oakley is a consummate independent if ever there was one, so why did a political party marshal its resources to intimidate her supporters and ultimately block her from getting on the ballot in Illinois? We talk abo
By surviving an assassination attempt, former President Trump had a golden opportunity to have a reset with undecided voters in the 2024 Election. Instead, he delivered another partisan stemwinder to his base. We discuss
With help from William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, we examine the ominous parallels between the early days of Nazi Germany and America's own creeping totalitarianism.
In this conversation I talk to Senator Nancy Barto, a longtime state legislator in Arizona. We discuss what the job of a state legislator is, why so few people are even aware of our democratic institutions, and the state
I sat down with Jeff Taylor to discuss prison reform efforts in Arizona as well as his own harrowing experience in "the system".
Jacob Siegel
writer and editor at Tablet Magazine · Tablet
1 appearance on this show
Bill Doherty
professor in the Department of Family Social Science · The Doherty Relationship Institute
1 appearance on this show
Joseph Ellis
Historian and author
1 appearance on this show
Mustafa Akyol
Cato Institute
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Iain McGilchrist
renowned psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar
2 appearances on this show
Jeff Taylor
Superintendent of the Norwin School District · Virginia Department of Aviation
1 appearance on this show
Richard Harris
Chief Strategy Officer at Nimbus Healthcare, Chief Medical Officer for Scripted, founder of Great Health and Wellness · Port Shelter Investment Management
1 appearance on this show
Jeff Gibbs
Planet of the Humans
1 appearance on this show
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