• Cicero and the Founding Fathers
    May 8 2024

    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.”


    Book at www.mightyheaton.com/featured

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • College Campuses Are So Very Very Passionate (WSPN)
    May 1 2024

    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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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Understanding Immigration Through Circus Folk
    Apr 24 2024

    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.

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Was Life Easier in the Fifties?
    Apr 19 2024

    There’s a pervasive idea that in the 1950s America had single-earner families who could more easily afford housing, car payments, groceries and college, so maybe we should go back to the political economy of that era? In this special, we visit Fiftiesland and see how it stacks up to modern America.

    Support the show! Patreon.com/andrewheaton

    Venmo: @andrew-heaton-1

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    2 hrs and 44 mins
  • What People Get Wrong About A. I.
    Apr 10 2024

    Tom Merritt of Daily Tech News joins to discuss the underlying technology of AI and Large Language Models, and what people get wrong about both.

    Pre-order Tom’s book at: www.tomsnewbook.com

    SUPPORT THE SHOW! www.patreon.com/andrewheaton

    Heaton and Nick sketch comedy: mightyheaton.com/vagabonding

    Bonus Episode: How to Use AI for Work https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-how-to-use-98003840?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

    Bonus: A.I. Wrote and Recorded An En Entire Episode

    https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-i-wrote-77020469?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

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    1 hr and 25 mins
  • Why Violent Crime is Up
    Apr 3 2024

    Jennifer Doleac is Executive Vice President of Criminal Justice at Arnold Ventures, a major funder of criminal justice research and reform in the United States. She joins to discuss trends in crime, causes and deterents of crime, and cheap or easy ways we can make the country safer.


    Support the show! www.patreon.com/andrewheaton.

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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • Just How Much Fraud is in Government?
    Mar 27 2024

    Adam Andrzejewski is CEO and Founder of Open The Books, an organization which files thousands of FOIA requests each year to document and expose government budgets and employee salaries, to identity waste and fraud.

    Website: https://www.openthebooks.com/

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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • Totalitarianism and the Gays
    Mar 20 2024
    Jonathan Rauch of the Brookings Institution joins to discuss the most openly totalitarian period of American history: the Lavender Scare. And to point out that there are still people alive who suffered through it, and what restitutions can be made. Article at The Atlantic: “The U.S. Should Apologize to Gay People.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/lavender-scare-gay-people-public-service-erasure/677236/
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    54 mins