politics

Ep 18 – The War on Informed Consent w/ Jeremy R. Hammond

My guest for this episode is independent journalist and author Jeremy R. Hammond. It’s been over a year since the last episode, although with COVID it feels like a decade, and I’m coming back to podcasting with a vengeance by wading into some controversial waters. But that’s what we’re about on this show, so buckle…

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Ep 16 – “Eggs Are Expensive, Sperm Is Cheap” with Greg Krehbiel

In this episode we’re going to talk about some things that will get you kicked out of polite society. It’s progressive and fashionable these days to talk about the Patriarchy and the oppression of women, their hard-won equality from the shackles of home life, and the immense sexual power than men wield over women in…

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Ep 15 – Healthcare Insider is Skeptical of the Conventional Wisdom on COVID-19

My guest for this episode is Brady Sorensen, Employee Health Manager at a hospital in Topeka, KS. He has seen the impact of COVID-19 first-hand and he has some thoughts on the virus and the government’s response to it. Brady has also been immune-compromised since he was 8 months old, so he has a unique…

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Episode 13 – Robert Beadles on Getting Started with Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency is a complicated subject to grasp well. Currency alone is something everyone understands, but add all the other terms into the mix—cryptography, decentralization, nodes, distributed ledgers, public and private keys, etc—and the average citizen either panics or gets glossy-eyed. Robert Beadles has written a very basic, entry-level overview of what cryptocurrency is, how it…

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Carrie Severino on the Kavanaugh Confirmation One Year Later

In the summer of 2018, Justice Anthony Kennedy retired from the Supreme Court and President Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to fill the open position. The uproar that followed, and the outrageous smear campaign that the Democrats and the corporate press waged against Kavanaugh, were beyond almost anything I’ve ever seen in politics. I followed the…

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A Disgrace to the Profession: The World’s Scientists–in their own words–on Michael E Mann, His Hockey Stick, and their Damage to Science

Subtitle: The World’s Scientists–in their own words–on Michael E Mann, His Hockey Stick, and their Damage to Science The famous “hockey stick” graph by climatologist Michael Mann, while not the sole foundation for the scientific case in support of anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change, is definitely the main face of it. Used in everything from Al…

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The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech by Kirsten Powers

Kirsten Powers is a self-described liberal Democrat, but she argues forcefully and persuasively that too often the left are anything but liberal–in the classic sense, meaning that they value religious liberty, freedom of speech, and the free exchange of ideas. The “illiberal left,” as she dubs them, instead deal with differing views by going to…

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Episode 1 – How to Think by Alan Jacobs

In this episode Seth and Josh discuss Alan Jacobs’ recent book, “How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds.” Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and a Resident Fellow of Baylor’s Institute for the Studies of Religion. He has written widely on…

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