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CO127 Scot Faulkner on the 1994 Contract with America
October 28, 2019

Scot Faulkner was the National Director of Personnel for the Reagan-Bush presidential Campaign of 1980. He went on to serve the Reagan Administration in executive positions at the Federal Aviation Administration, the General Services Administration,

CO126 Richard Vedder on America’s Short-changed Students
October 21, 2019

Richard Vedder is an economist, historian, author, and columnist. He is a professor emeritus of economics at Ohio University and senior fellow at The Independent Institute. Who have just published his latest book called Restoring the Promise: Higher Ed...

CO125 Wen Fa on Litigating Liberty
October 07, 2019

Wen Fa is an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation, a national, nonprofit legal organization that represents clients free of charge. We talked about his work on cases including Rentberry v. City of Seattle about rent-bidding laws,

Getting Off Podcast Special for Challenging Opinions
October 04, 2019

Challenging Opinions brings you a special showcase edition of the Getting Off podcast, presented by Jessa and Nick. It’s dark-humored criminal defense attorneys discussing famous crimes, trials, and all things criminal justice. Go to GettingOffPod.

CO124 Steven Taylor on The Electoral College, again
September 30, 2019

Steven Taylor  is Professor of Political Science and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Troy University, Alabama. He specialises in political parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies.

CO123 Anthony Galace on Greenlining not Redlining
September 23, 2019

Anthony Galace is the director of health equity at the Greenlining Institute. ***** Our brains don’t really work so well with very small or very large numbers. If I ask you to imagine the distance from earth to the sun, from earth to the nearest star,

CO122 Sky Palma on Opinion News
September 16, 2019

Sky Palma is the founder of DeadState, and a senior editor at Raw Story. ***** If I was to ask you what was the most dangerous animal in the world, and you were to think tigers, bears or sharks, you’d be wildly wrong, particularly with sharks.

CO121 Jared Moffat on the Legacy of Prohibition
September 02, 2019

Jared Moffat is campaign coordinator for the Marijuana Policy Project. I mentioned that Ferguson, Missouri gains an extrordinary amount of its revenue from motoring fines. Black people make up 27 percent of the population,

CO120 Reese Erlich on Tensions with Iran
August 19, 2019

Reese Erlich has won numerous journalism awards including a Peabody award. He’s also a freelance journalist who writes for CBS Radio, Australian Broadcasting Corp., NPR and VICE News, and his Foreign Correspondent column distributed nationally in the U...

CO119 Gautam Tejas Ganeshan on What Motivates Antivaxxers
August 05, 2019

Gautam Tejas Ganeshan is a musician and a writer and blogger, and we talked about a piece that he wrote titled ‘Is there an intelligible “anti-vaxx” position?‘