Category: Interviews

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Mike talks with Chris Brady, a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, humorist, and businessman. His latest book is The Bitcoin Bride: A Rascal Money Story.

Topics Mike & Chris discuss include:
– what cryptocurrency is and how it works
– Bitcoin as “freedom money”
– the inevitability of traditional currency losing value
– “Gold Bugs” and cryptocurrency
– President Biden’s recent Executive Order on cryptocurrency
– whether the cryptocurrency needs more regulation
– if Russia can use cryptocurrency to evade sanctions
– Friedrich Hayek and the philosophical underpinnings of cryptocurrency
– the future of cryptocurrency

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Mike & Trey talk with Isaac Saul, a political reporter who shares our belief that information bubbles are a big problem. Instead of just bemoaning this and encouraging people to try and somehow break out of their partisan bubbles, Isaac decided to do something about it – he founded Tangle. If you’re a fan of The Politics Guys, you’ll really appreciate Isaac’s work. which we talk with him about in this episode, as well as problems in the media more generally.

Topics we cover include:

• media’s treatment of Obama vs Trump
• political opinion that masquerades as “news analysis”
• the challenge of getting real political diversity
• why “When is the last time you changed your mind?” is such an important question
• what Tangle is, how Isaac and his team put it together, and what they cover
• the economic model of news and the future of political media

Check out Tangle here.

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 Trey talks with scholar Justin Gest (@_JustinGest), an associate professor from George Mason Universty’s Schar School of Policy and Government, and author of the upcoming book Majority Minority.

Things Trey & Gest get into include:

• The future of majority minority politics in the United States
• Understanding nationalism
• The intersection of ethnicity, nationalism, and politics
• Trinidad and Tobago’s lessons for the U.S.
• What happens to democracy as demographics shift

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Mike talks with Andrew Rice, a contributing editor at New York magazine, former staff writer at The Hill, and the author of the recently published book The Year That Broke America: An Immigration Crisis, a Terrorist Conspiracy, the Summer of Survivor, a Ridiculous Fake Billionaire, a Fight for Florida, and the 537 Votes That Changed Everything, which is the topic of their discussion.

Things Mike & Andrew get into include:

– Why 2000 was the year that broke America
– Donald Trump’s first (failed) presidential run
– the story of Elián González and how it divided America
– how John McCain broke Mike’s (and the media’s) heart
– terrorist preparations for 9/11
– Al Gore & Chaos Theory
– the insanely close, and incredibly chaotic 2000 presidential election
– what looking back at 2000 can tell us about American politics today

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Mike talks with Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a prolific and always interesting blogger for Econlog. He’s the author of multiple books, three of which Bryan and Mike have discussed on previous episodes: The Myth of the Rational Voter (interview), The Case Against Education (interview), and Open Borders (interview). Today they discuss Bryan’s latest book Labor Econ vs The World: Essays on the World’s Greatest Market.  

Topics Mike & Bryan discuss include:
– what labor economics is and why it stands against the world
– if politicians are irrational and wrong or rational and deceptive
– the problems with almost all government regulations
– how the minimum wage hurts workers (and everyone else)
– the largely illusory gender and race pay gap
– the questionable value of higher education (for most people)
– why open borders would be a good thing for America (and the world)

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Mike talks with Glenn Hubbard, the Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics at the Columbia Business School. Professor Hubbard is the author of a number of highly regarded economics texts and he’s also served as the chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers from 2001 through 2003. His latest book, and the topic of this conversation, is The Wall and the Bridge: Fear and Opportunity in Disruption’s Wake.

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Mike talks with Eric Posner, the Kirkland and Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, about his latest book, How Antitrust Failed Workers. In this discussion, they cover:

– monopolies and monopsonies
– labor market concentration
– why there are so few labor-focused antitrust actions
– important differences between labor markets and product markets
– the use and abuse of non-compete and no poaching agreements
– how antitrust law can be used to help workers
– and lots more

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In this special midweek episode Trey interviews author Seth David Radwell on his new book American Schism which is coming out this week. The pair discuss the major theme of his book: how the enlightenment informs contemporary American politics.

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Mike talks with Brown University political scientist James Morone about his latest book, Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal, from George Washington to Donald Trump.

Topics they cover include:

• the history of partisan conflict
• how our current conflicts are different
• states as “laboratories of authoritarianism
• the dirty little secret of bipartisanship
• recommendations for reform

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Mike and Jay talk with Congressman Rob Wittman (R, VA-1), second ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, about the growth in Chinese military strength (they now have the largest navy in the world), the threat posed by China to US interests, Taiwan, military spending, and more.

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