Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Mike talks to Vanderbilt University political scientist Larry Bartels about his book (co-authored with Christopher Achen) Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government. Topics Mike and Larry discuss include: – identity politics – tribalism – the ‘folk theory’ of democracy and why…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS This week, Mike and Jay open the show with discussion of the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh. They agree that the hearings are almost entirely political theater at this point and that everyone’s mind is made up. Mike argues that despite this,…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Do Never-Trumpers Skew the Numbers? and other questions In this week of Ask the Politics Guys supporters ask Trey and Mike their most pressing questions. First they address the issue of if Trump’s support among Republicans is so high because never-Trump Republicans are leaving. Next…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Trey and Mike open this week looking at Senator John McCain’s legacy in the American political system. Whether you gave money to his campaign like Mike, or disagreed with his policies like Trey, both Guys agree that McCain was a honest Senator who worked tirelessly…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Mike talks with E. Glen Weyl, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New York City, about his recent book with Eric Posner, Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society. Mike and Glen discuss: why private property is a form of inefficient monopoly…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Mike and Jay open the show with a discussion of President Trump’s very rough week. First was the conviction of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort on eight counts of bank and tax fraud, followed by a plea deal between federal prosecutors and former Trump…
Mike and Jay open the show with a discussion of President Trump’s very rough week. First was the conviction of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort on eight counts of bank and tax fraud, followed by a plea deal between federal prosecutors and…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Mike talks to novelist and essayist Joshua Cohen about his latest book, Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction. In this talk, Mike and Joshua discuss: Donald Trump and the Fall of Atlantic City What people who have worked with Donald Trump have to say about him…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS (There was a very short period in Mike’s life where he thought he could handle his teaching job, write a book, host The Politics Guys, and start a new podcast – Politics Plus. It soon became evident to Mike how insane trying to do all…
Subscribe: iTunes | PocketCasts | Overcast | Stitcher | RSS Mike and Jay open the show with a look at the recent primary elections in Vermont, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Kansas. Mike is pleased to see his Democrats nominating diverse candidates, while Jay points out that while diversity is a good thing, being well-qualified, regardless…